Encounters of a Wayward Sailor

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Encounters of a Wayward Sailor

Tristan Jones

The great teller of sea stories -- Tristan Jones -- is back, with a new collection of yarns, reminiscences, and adventures never before published in book form. Drawing on experiences from a lifetime spent at sea, Jones uses his acute powers of observation and his gift with the written word to transport us aboard boats struggling through savage gales, sweltering through parched calms, and sliding down the trade winds through beautiful phosphorescent seas.

Jones carries us also 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. We meet famous mountain climber and sailing adventurer Bill Tilman, long-distance voyager and mystic Bernard Moitessier, and pioneering woman sailor Clare Francis, as well as a panoply of memorable characters: the Texan who helped Jones publish his first book, the shadowy crewmember whom Jones unwittingly smuggles into Spain, and the sailor saved by a disconnected floodlight.

200 pp., 1995 0924486805 paper

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