In a salty, slashing style, Tristan Jones unfolds his extraordinary saga—a six-year voyage during which he covered a distance equal to twice the circumference of the world—revealing both a rich sense of history and an insuppressible Welsh wit.
With a singleness of purpose as ferocious as any hazard he encountered, Tristan Jones would not give up—even after dodging snipers on the Red Sea, capsizing off the Cape of Good Hope, starving in 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 uncharted rivers to find his way back to the ocean.
Tristan Jones was one of the most prolific and best-loved authors of sailing stories. A Welshman, he left school at age 14 to work on sailing barges and spent the rest of his life at sea--in the Royal Navy, as a delivery skipper, and as a daring adventurer in search of new seagoing challenges. Jones wrote 16 books, including Encounters of a Wayward Sailor published by Sheridan House.
Foreword
Acknowledgments
Part One: To Strive
1: A Brave Concept
2: The Beleaguered Land
3: The Dead Sea
4: The Hostile Se
5: Running the Gauntlet
6: An Alien WInd
7: Ethiopian Interlude
8: Gate of Tears
9: Meadows of Gold
10: Islands Forbidden and Forgotten
11: Indian Ocean Paradise
Part Two: To Seek
12: A Round of Cyclones
13: The Crystal Coast
14: From the Sublime to the Ridiculous
15: Round the Cape of Good Hope
16: Another Ocean Crossing
17: A Good Run Ashore
18: The Amazing Amazon
19: Hard Times
20: Bloody but Unbowed
21: Penal Paradise
22: West Indies Peepshow
Part Three: To Find
23: Of Cabbage and Kings
24: Colombia--In and Out
25: A Forgotten Colony
26: Small Boat: Big DItch
27: Straining the Leash
28: A Near Disaster
29: A Real-Life Devils Island
30: Against the Humboldt
31: Harking Back a Bit
32: Callao!
33: Kindred Spirits
34: A Splendid Reception
35: Among th Condors
36: Another Year: Another World
37: Where Angels Fear to Tread
38: The Floating Islands
39: Sailing on the Roof of the World
40: The Island of the Sun
41: Another Splendid Reception
42: Strange Encounters
43: Dances and Skeletons
44: A Trip to Town
45: Touch and Go
Part Four: And Not to Yield
46: A Race Against Nature
47: High Comedy
48: Through the Clouds
49: Out of the Frying Pan
50: Into the Fire!
51: The Green Hell
52: The Valley of the Shadows
53: Beside the Green Pastures
54: The Crucified Land
55: Where the Ocean Meets the Pampas
56: El Supremo
57: The Wild Paraná
58: Some Bottle! Some Cork!
59: Triumph--and Disaster
Postscript
Appendix
...well-told, embellished not only with hyperbole and idiosyncratic opinion, but with history, philosophy, even poetry....Romance is another word I would use: love of the sea, adventure, excitement, and he our errant knight, a direct descendant of Captain Ahab and Joshua Slocum. 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. — Caribbean Compass
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