The Improbable Voyage
By Tristan Jones
332 pp. 1998. Paperback. $16.50
ISBN 1 57409 062 3
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Continuing the story begun in Outward Leg, Tristan Jones recounts his astonishing 2,307-mile voyage across Europe – intended to show the world that a physical disability need not preclude a life of adventure.
After recovering from broken ribs and a collapsed lung in an Amsterdam hospital, Jones gathers his crew and sets off up the Rhine, where they are beset by the severest winter in recent European history. Battling ice and cold, petty bureaucrats and customs officials, Bulgarian gun-boats, and Romanian frontier police, they plot a hazardous course up the Rhine and down the Danube. Flying the Red Ensign, the Stars and Stripes, and the Red Dragon of Wales, Tristan sails indomitablly through Holland, Germany, Austria, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Yugoslavia, Romania, and Bulgaria, eventually emerging triumphantly in the Black Sea, where – for the first time in forty-five years of seafaring – he receives an invitation to dine in an Officers' Mess, aboard HMS NAIAD.
The story concludes in Somewheres East of Suez.
“Riveting and spellbinding from start to finish.” —Latitudes & Attitudes
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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.