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YARNS.By Tristan Jones. Paperback, 137mm x 215mm, 272 pages.
In this book, Tristan Jones tells how he began his writing career. He draws on his many adventures to evoke some of the memorable people he has met, and to describe some of the most beautiful cruising grounds in the world. He gives advice on everything from seamanship to dealing with local populations in remote places. Not to be missed is his marvelous evocation in the style of Conan Doyle as the mystery of the Mary Celeste is solved, or the Conrad-inspired story of a troubled steamship, Breakdown. Other yarns include the tale of an unlikely salvage operation in Ibiza, a strange rendezvous on the coast of Africa, and of a coincidental meeting with one of America's greatest cruising sailors.
Tristan Jones has sailed a record 400,000 miles in a lifetime spent at sea. Born aboard his father's sailing ship as it rounded Cape Horn, he grew up in Wales and later joined the Royal Navy. After he left the service, he began a career of yacht deliveries and, aboard his own boats, undertook some of the most ambitious small craft journeys ever made. He has written many books about his incredible adventures and is one of the best-loved nautical writers today.
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ADRIFT.By Triston Jones. Paperback, 150mm x 227mm, 272 pages.
As an ocean adventurer, Tristan Jones has no peer. Readers worldwide have been thrilled by his accounts of sailing the world's most dangerous and beautiful waters. Emerging from the South American wilderness after the incredible 60,000-mile voyage that took him from the world's lowest waters (the Dead Sea) to the highest (Lake Titicaca), Tristan Jones was arrested first in Buenos Aires, then in Montevideo. When he finally made it home to Britain, his vessel - the tiny Sea Dart - was impounded by customs officials because Jones couldn't pay the 'import' tax.
In his quest for the means to liberate Sea Dart , Jones took any work he could get: stoking the boilers of Harrold's department store in London, regaling talk-show viewers with wild stories, and skippering one-day cruises for jaded New Yorkers. Describing these and countless other predicametns, Tristan Jones tells a survival story as harrowing and moving as any of those told in his previous books. And as always there is also great hilarity.
Thristan Jones writes superbly of the sea. It is forever in his heart, even when he is landlocked. When Sea Dart arrives by freighter from England for an eye-popping "sail" through the streets of New York - well, suffice it to say that this gripping story of a man down-and-out on three continents ends so triumphantly, it ought to be fiction. But it isn't.
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SAGA OF A WAYWARD SAILOR. By Tristan Jones. Pbk, 137mm x 208mm, 263 pages.
This book chronicles Jones' adventures aboard his beloved Cresswell, a wooden lifeboat converted to cruising sailboat. Jones survives storms, dismastings, arrest by the Soviet Navy, the smuggling of Edam cheeses and Barbary apes, and being sunk by whales. We also get to meet an intriguing cast of dockside characters: Karl, the German fish-canning salesman; Pete, the Australian smuggler; Sissie, the Englishwoman who wheedles her way permanently aboard; and Nelson, Jones' three-legged dog.
Saga of a Wayward Sailor is quintessential Jones: exciting, poignant, outrageous, and thoroughly amusing.
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THE INCREDIBLE VOYAGE.By Tristan Jones. Paperback, 150mm x 228mm, 390 pages.
During his intrepid six-year voyage, sailing on a small craft on the lowest body of water in the world, the Dead Sea in Israel - and the highest, Lake Titicaca in the Andes, Tristan Jones covered a distance equal to twice the circumference of the world and found himself "a thousand times beyond the limits of endurance." This gripping sea yarn is at once a riveting adventure story and a testament to human tenacity. In a salty, slashing style, he unfolds his extraordinary saga, revealing both a rich sense of history and an insuppressible Welsh wit.
With a singleness of purpose as ferocious as any hazard he encountered, Triatan Jones would not give up - even after dodging snipers on the Red Sea, capsizing off the Cape of Good Hope, starving on the Amazon, struggling for 3,000 miles against the mightiest sea current in the world, and hauling his boat over the rugged Andes three miles above sea level to find at last the legendary Island of the Sun. And beyond lay the most awesome challenge of all - the tortuous trek through 6,000 miles of unchartered rivers to find his way back to the ocean.
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THE IMPROBABLE VOYAGE.By Tristan Jones. Paperback, 153mm x 229mm, 332 pages.
This book is the astonishing account of Tristan Jones' 2,307-mile voyage across Europe in an ocean-going trimaran. With characteristic wit and inimitable style, the legendary sailor and master storyteller continues this tale of his round-the-world voyage begun in Outward Leg. Having half-recovered in an Amsterdam hospital from broken ribs and a collapsed lung, Tristan, together with his crew, sets off up the Rhine and experiences the most severe winter known in Europe for many years. Battling ice and cold, petty-minded bureaucrats and customs officials, Bulgarian gun-boats and Romanian frontier police, he charts his hazardous course up the Rhine and down the Danube. Flying the Red Ensign, the Stars and Stripes, and the Red Dragon of Wales, and playing bagpipe music at full volume, Tristan announces his passage in every town as he sails indomitably through eight countries to emerge triumphant, if penniless, in the Black Sea.
A memorable contribution to travel accounts of Central Europe behind the Iron Curtain, The Improbable Voyage offers a vivid portrayal of life along Europe's oldest water routes. But it is the people from all walks of life whom Tristan meets on this unlikely voyage and the adventures, both hilarious and daunting, that he and his crew experience along the way, that will enchant the ever-increasing number of devotees of this extraordinary sailor and writer.
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TO VENTURE FURTHER.By Tristan Jones. Paperback, 154m x 227mm, 302 pages.
Ancient Chinese legends tell of heroic attempts to navigate the waterways of the Kra peninsula which divides the Andaman Sea from the Gulf of Thailand. Yet despite efforts over the last century by expeditions from several Western navies, there was no record of a successful crossing - none, until renowned sailor Tristan Jones took on the challenge.
This book is the inspiring story of this memorable exploit by one of the finest sailing adventure writers of our time. Accompanied by his German mate, Thomas, and three disabled Thai youths, Jones makes the short but exceedingly difficult passage across the Kra in a small seagoing fishing boat. Facing floating debris, homemade dams, mechanical failure and precariouly low funds, Jones - whose left leg was amputated several years before - remains determined to win out against all obstacles, no matter how insurmountable they seem.
With characteristically acerbic wit, Jones offers shrewd commentary on the Westernization of modern Thailand, bemoaning the destruction of a once idyllic land. And whether confronting a band of raucous teenage monks, outwitting pirates in the Gulf of Thailand, or cruising a dry riverbed by hitching his boat onto an elephant, he continues to exhibit the awesome stubborness and implacable courage of a man willing to sacrifice all comforts for the unknown and seemingly impossible.
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ENCOUNTERS OF A WAYWARD SAILOR.By Tristan Jones. Paperback, 137mm x 210mm, 198 pages.
Here is Tristan Jones, the great teller of sea stories with a new collection of yarns, reminiscences and adventures never before published in book form. Drawing on experiences from a lifetime at sea, Jones uses his acute powers of observation and his gift with the written word to transport us aboard boats struggling through savage gales, sweltering through parched calms, and sliding down the trade winds through beautiful phosphorescent seas.
We meet famous mountain climber and sailing adventurer Bill Tilman, long-distance voyager and writer Bernard Moitessier, and pioneering woman sailor Clare Francis, as well as a panoply of memorable characters who inevitably crossed Jones' path.
With a special poignancy and his wry sense of humor, Jones brings back to life people, places, and boats now gone forever. He recalls the best anchorages he visited, the many boats he sailed, his favorite cities, and his most memorable voyages. And for veteran Tristan Jones readers, this book offers a glimpse of his last years in Thailand.
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AKA.By Tristan Jones. Paperback, 148mm x 225mm, 205 pages.
In a last-ditch effort to win status and success, middle-aged adventurer Bill Conan enters a 30,000-mile single-handed race to sail around the world. This ultimate test of skill, strength, and endurance leads him across the vast expanse of the treacherous Atlantic Ocean, where a sudden change in wind throws him off balance and sends him overboard. Alone in the still, open sea he fights to keep from drowning, knowing it is a fight that he must lose...
But Conan has fallen into the migratory path of a bottle-nosed dolphin named Aka and his tribe. In an exhilarating encounter, they sense Conan's plight, communicate with him, and work to keep him afloat and alive.
A stirring adventure tale, Aka is also an unforgettable portrait of the ancient history of dolphins, their extraordinary traits and abilities, and their eternal friendship with humans.
NZ$30.00 + delivery.
ICE.By Tristan Jones. Paperback. 281 pages, 140mm x 210mm.
In his first book, Jones, the much-loved author of sailing stories, tells the story of setting out from Iceland in Creswell to sail a boat further north than anybody else. Accompanied by Nelson, his one-eyed, three-legged Labrador, Jones holes up for winter in a Greenland fjord. Trapped by a violent snowstorm, without adequate food or cover, he spends a week trying to dig himself out before being rescued.
The second winter Jones, Nelson and Creswell are trapped in the middle of an ice pack in the Arctic Ocean. For 366 days they remain there, marooned in the bleak murk of the polar winter.
NZ$44.00 + delivery.
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