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The Incredible Voyage
The Incredible Voyage
The Incredible Voyage
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The Incredible Voyage

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A Welshman’s witty and gritty sailing adventure memoir with “the bite of fine sea salt and a whiplike delivery” (Kirkus Reviews).

Follow the supreme adventurer, Tristan Jones, as he takes a solitary and intrepid six-year voyage on his small craft, The Sea Dart. Covering a distance twice the circumference of the globe, from the lowest body of water in the world—the Dead Sea—to the highest—Lake Titicaca in the Andes—Jones finds himself "a thousand times beyond the limit of endurance." With tenacity stronger than any obstacle, Jones refuses to give up his adventure, even after falling prey to several disasters that could have killed him. Struggling against the mighty current of the Amazon, hauling his boat over the Andes Mountains and capsizing off the Cape of Good Hope do not discourage him.

This gripping story is a testament to his indomitable spirit and thirst for danger.

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Release dateMay 27, 2014
ISBN9781497630734
The Incredible Voyage
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Tristan Jones

Tristan Jones was born at sea aboard his father’s sailing ship off of the cape of Tristan da Cunha. He joined the Royal Navy at the age of fourteen and spent his entire life at sea. He sailed a record four hundred thousand miles during his career with the navy and on a delivery yacht, and has gone on several ambitious journeys on his own small ships. For the last few years of his life, he retired to Phuket, Thailand, aboard his cruising trimaran. Jones wrote many books about his remarkable life, including Saga of a Wayward Sailor and The Incredible Voyage. He passed away in 1995. In 2003, Ragged Mountain Press published an unauthorized biography, Wayward Sailor: In Search of the Real Tristan Jones.

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    Jones provides his account of sailing from the lowest point of navigable water below sea level to the highest navigable water on the planet - lake Titicaca. Adventure buffs will find his story compelling, fascinating and peppered with just the right amount of jargon to make you feel as though you are sitting on the Barbara with him as he sails past middle eastern military men or slogging along beside him as his helper pulls the boat upstream through the Amazon river's headwaters. A great read that will keep you turning pages long after you should be in bed...

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    the fearless welsh sailor is also a first-rate spinner of words. anything by jones is more than worth the effort. too bad he's not more well known.

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