A Steady Trade
A Boyhood at SeaBy Tristan Jones
280 pp. Illustrated. 1996. Paperback. $16.50
ISBN 1 57409 018 6
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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.
“The boats he sailed have all come home now…there is no one who can write so well about them.” —Books and Bookmen
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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.