Tristan Jones

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Connecticut

In a last-ditch stab at fortune and glory, middle-aged adventurer Bill Conan enters a 30,000-mile single-handed round-the-world race. This ultimate test of skill, strength, and endurance leads him across the treacherous Atlantic Ocean's vast expanse, where a sudden change in wind throws him off balance and sends him overboard. Alone in the still, open sea, he struggles to keep from drowning, knowing it is a fight that he will eventually lose...

But Conan has stumbled into the migratory path of a bottle-nosed dolphin named Aka and his tribe. In an exhilarating encounter, he senses Conan's plight, communicates with him, and works to keep him afloat and alive.

A stirring adventure tale, Aka depicts the ancient history of dolphins, their extraordinary traits and abilities, and their eternal friendship with humans.

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Kansas

Further Adventures of a Wayward Sailor

More adventures and more encounters a la Tristan Jones, including the delivery of a yacht from Algiers to Marseilles with some unexpected machine-gun fire thrown in, and a stormy night mercy mission transporting a battered English lady and Senora Puig who gives birth at dawn.

Seagulls in My Soup

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Florida

A Boyhood at Sea

A Steady Trade is the story of a childhood in Whales and a boyhood on the arduous sail-in-trade of Northern Europe before World War II. It is a charming, nostalgic reminiscence of a lost world, a childhood in a Welsh countryside still in the 19th century, of a time when chantey-singing sailors fought the weather to deliver bricks, coal, even animals around the world, and of a young boy who wanted to experience it all.

A Steady Trade

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Tristan Jones's nostalgic memoir of his early years in Wales and on the arduous "sail-in-trade" of northern Europe glows warmly with many charming reminiscences of the lost Welsh countryside - a corner of the world largely untouched by the 20th century, where chantey-singing sailors fought the weather to transport bricks, coal, and even animals around the world. An incredibly vivid evocation of a legendary man's remarkable coming of age, A Steady Trade captures the sights, sounds, and smells of the sea.

Michigan

Ex-library copy

The Welsh explorer, adventurar, and sailing record holder describes his 1985 voyage down the Rhine and the Danube, from London to Istanbul, in his thirty-six-foot trimaran, Outward Leg

The Improbable Voyage

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In this memorable exploit from a master storyteller, legendary sailor Tristan Jones makes an exceedingly difficult passage through the infamous Kra Peninsula in a small fishing boat, sacrificing all personal comforts for the unknown and the seemingly impossible.

To Venture Further

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With characteristic eloquence and a healthy dose of humor. Tristan Jones tells a gripping story of sailing 8,000 miles from Istanbul to Thailand.

Somewheres East of Suez

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#hardcover #tristanjones Excellent condition hardcover edition. #vivid 

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Ohio

The indefatigable viyager and storyteller Tristan Jones first gained widespread popularity with the publication of his bestselling Saga of a Wayward Sailor in 1979. It chronicles Jones' adventures from 1961 to 1968 aboard his beloved Cresswell, a wooden lifeboat converted to cruising sailboat. Jones survives storms, dismastings, arrest by the Soviet Navy, the smiggling of Edam cheeses and Barbary apes, and being sunk by whales.

Saga of a Wayward Sailor

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With characteristic eloquence and a healthy dose of humor, Tristan Jones tells a gripping story of sailing 8000 miles from Istanbul to Thailand.

#hardcover #tristanjones Signed in 1987. See other listings for details.

Signed 1987

After seven years ashore and having had his left leg amputated, Tristan Jones decided to return to the sea, hoping to inspire other handicapped people. In October 1983, Jones and his only crew member, Wally Rediske, set out from San Diego in a 36-foot trimaran, intending to circumnavigate the world from west to east by sail. This is story of Tristan's preparation for this major seagoing event and the chronicle of half of it. (continued in Improbable Voyage). Tristan sailed down the west coast of Central America through the Panama Canal to Colombia, where he had to fight for survival among hostile natives, drug dealers and uncoooperative port officers. He went on to Venezuela, Aruba and the Dominican Republic during its 1984 revolution. Finally he reached New York and crossed the Atlantic to return to St Katherine's Dock in London where he began his seagoing life, thirty years before.

Outward Leg

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Improbable Voyage of the Yacht "Outward Leg" Into, Through and Out of the Heart of Europe

Emerging from the South American wilderness after adventures related in The Incredible Voyage, Tristan Jones finally makes it home to Britain to find his vessel, the tiny, nearly indestructible Sea Dart, impounded by customs officials because he cannot pay the import tax. In his quest for the means to liberate his boat, he takes any work he can get: stoking the boilers at Harrod's, regaling TV talk show viewers with wild stories, and in New York skippering one-day around the lighthouse cruises

Adrift

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#hardcover Signed hardcover of Heart of Oak. See other listings for more details. #tristanjones 

Signed in 1987

Following the account of his childhood and his early years aboard in A Steady Trade, Tristan Jones now looks back to his years below decks in the Royal Navy during World War II.

Heart of Oak

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#hardcover #tristanjones Signed in 1987. Aside from the ripped corner of the slip cover, as shown in photo, book is in excellent condition. See other listings for details.

The Essentials of Single-Handed Sailing

One Hand for Yourself, One for the Ship is a course on single-handed sailing by the man most qualified to give it. It is a highly personal perspective on both the science and art of this ultimate challenge, and it bears the unmistakable stamp of one who has lived on and for the sea.

One Hand for Yourself, One for the Ship

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My grandfather was a huge fan of this author and took a large lot up to see him before he passed to have them signed. I have more, if a few of these gain interest. #tristanjones #hardcover 

#hardcover #tristanjones Signed in 1987. Slipcover has issues, but book is in great condition. See other listings for details.

#hardcover  #tristanjones Book has seen better days, slipcover has a rip. See other listings for details.

When Tristan Jones was discharged from the Navy, and told he was physically unfit for more seagoing, he got hold of a small craft, Cresswell, which he converted to a cruising ketch and started sailing. Determined to sail further north than anyone else, Jones set out for Iceland, accompanied only by his dog, Nelson. Jones spent two winters full of continuous suspense and danger in this bleak polar region.

Ice!

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#hardcover Signed in 1987 by Tristan Jones. Dust Jacket in fair condition, book is in great condition. Received quite a few from my grandfather and figured I’d see if anybody had interest in these. #tristanjones

The Incredible Voyage

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That great storyteller of the sea, Tristan Jones, returns with a new collection of yarns, reminiscences, and adventures never before published in book form. Jones carries readers to the sleepy Spanish ports of the 1950s, the pleasures of Buenos Aires in the last days of Peron, and the damp forests of Southeast Asia. He recounts encounters with Bernard Moitessier and pioneering female sailor Clare Francis, as well as a panoply of memorable characters - among them a sailor who owes his life to a disconnected floodlight and a shadowy crewmember whom Jones unwittingly smuggles into Spain.

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