The Improbable Voyage
Description
The sailor-author navigates his famous yacht, Outward Leg, across the rivers of Europe in this travel memoir that's "vintage Tristan Jones" ( Publishers Weekly). The Improbable Voyage is the account of master sailor and storyteller Tristan Jones' 2,307-mile voyage across Europe in an oceangoing trimaran, Outward Leg. Continuing his round-the-world journey, Jones traveled from the North Sea to the Black Sea via the rivers Rhine and Danube. Battling ice and cold, life-threatening rapids and narrow defiles, German bureaucrats and Romanian frontier police, the indomitable Jones made his way through eight countries and emerged triumphant, if battered, bruised and penniless, at the Black Sea.Tristan Jones is one of the best-known 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.
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Person
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.
Content
- Cover
- Foreword
- PART ONE: Into
- 1. On Pioneering
- 2. Some Boot, Some Lace
- 3. More Haste-Less Speed
- 4. The Pause That Refreshed
- 5. Deutschland über Alles
- 6. The Lilt of the Lorelei
- 7. Bounding on the Main and Rebounding
- 8. 'Mid Pleasures and Palaces
- 9. Blocked and Beset
- PART TWO: Through
- 10. Out of the Trap and Over the Gap
- 11. Docks, Rocks, Stocks, Old Jocks and Shocks
- 12. Death Trap
- 13. Gorgeous Gorges
- 14. Aspiring Spires
- 15. Inquiring Choirs
- 16. From the Sublime to the Gorblime
- 17. The Bear's Paw
- 18. The Setup
- 19. Running the Gauntlet
- 20. The Green Fields Beyond
- 21. A Tale of Two Cities
- 22. The Naked Truth
- 23. When You Go, You Go Yugoslavia
- 24. Beautiful and Bad; Charming and Repulsive
- 25. Last Outposts
- PART THREE: Out
- 26. Through the Iron Gates
- 27. The Lost Planet and the Void
- 28. Learning About Rumania
- 29. Captains and Capitalists
- 30. Hulls, Hells and Highwater
- 31. Thalassa!
- 32. Victorious, Happy and Half-Knackered
- List of Ports of Call on Outward Leg's Voyage across Europe
- Copyright
