Yarns
Published on 1. April 2014
272 pages
978-1-4976-0351-6 (ISBN)
Description
"
A pleasure... a brilliant collection of yarns about [a British mariner's] life, his sailing adventures, and his thoughts about man and the sea." -
Lloyd's List
In Yarns, legendary sailor and adventurer Tristan Jones tells stories of his remarkable life at sea. Along with tales of the beautiful cruises he has made around the world and the memorable people he has met along the way, Jones has advice for his readers on everything from captaining a boat to engaging with locals in remote locations. He proposes his own theory for the mystery of the ghost ship Mary Celeste. Other yarns include a story of a troubled steamship, his accounts of an unlikely salvage operation in Ibiza, a strange rendezvous on the coast of Africa, and his chance encounter with a renowned American sailor. Jones even shares what prompted him to begin writing in the first place-a turn of fortune that sailing and reading fans have lauded him for ever since.
"The characters and capers, including a Sherlock Holmes-style mystery, pour deliciously from the pen of this legendary adventurer." - Cruising World
In Yarns, legendary sailor and adventurer Tristan Jones tells stories of his remarkable life at sea. Along with tales of the beautiful cruises he has made around the world and the memorable people he has met along the way, Jones has advice for his readers on everything from captaining a boat to engaging with locals in remote locations. He proposes his own theory for the mystery of the ghost ship Mary Celeste. Other yarns include a story of a troubled steamship, his accounts of an unlikely salvage operation in Ibiza, a strange rendezvous on the coast of Africa, and his chance encounter with a renowned American sailor. Jones even shares what prompted him to begin writing in the first place-a turn of fortune that sailing and reading fans have lauded him for ever since.
"The characters and capers, including a Sherlock Holmes-style mystery, pour deliciously from the pen of this legendary adventurer." - Cruising World
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Person
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.
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
- Epigraph
- Foreword
- Introduction
- A Hard Schooling
- Slow Boat to Barcelona
- Rewards and Remembrances
- People on Passage
- The Dreaming Coast
- Sherlock Holmes and the Mystery of the Mary Celeste
- Storm Clouds Off the Andes
- The Longest Haul
- A Sea to Myself
- The Green Hell
- Tristan Jones Goes South
- The Yankee
- The Truth About the Triangle
- The Voyage of Quiberon
- Breakdown
- Tropical Cruising In Moslem Countries
- Rendezvous In Mombasa
- The Saga of Dreadnaught
- By the Skin of My Teeth
- Epilogue
