Encounters of a Wayward Sailor
By Tristan Jones
208 pp. 1995. Paperback. $17.50
ISBN 0 924486 80 5
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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.
"Jones was created to tell yarns — some lovable, some laughable, many not quite believable. Yet he communicated what it means to be a sailor." —SAIL
"...Jones uses his acute powers of observation and his gift with the written word to transport us..." —Dockside
"...a marvellous collection of episodes...excellent and gripping..." —Yachting World
"No one alive writes as well as Jones did about sailing.... It's his last book — read it." —Yachts and Yachting
"...one of those books to pick up any time and be engrossed in." —Lloyds List
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About the Author:
Legendary sailor Tristan Jones left school at the age of 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 seagoing adventurer travelling the world in search of new and ever greater challenges. He wrote 16 books.