The Incredible Voyage

In a salty, slashing style, Tristan Jones unfolds his extraordinary saga-a six-year voyage during which he covered a distance equal to twice the circumference of the world-revealing both a rich sense of history and an insuppressible Welsh wit. With a singleness of purpose as ferocious as any hazard he encountered, Tristan Jones would not give up-even after dodging snipers on the Red Sea, capsizing off the Cape of Good Hope, starving in the Amazon, struggling for 3,000 miles against the mightiest sea current in the world, and hauling his boat over the rugged Andes three miles above sea level to find at last the legendary Island of the Sun. And beyond lay the most awesome challenge of all: the tortuous trek through 6,000 miles of uncharted rivers to find his way back to the ocean.

Tristan Jones was one of the most prolific and best-loved authors of sailing stories. A Welshman, he left school at age 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 adventurer in search of new seagoing challenges. Jones wrote 16 books, including Encounters of a Wayward Sailor published by Sheridan House.

Foreword Acknowledgments Part One: To Strive 1: A Brave Concept 2: The Beleaguered Land 3: The Dead Sea 4: The Hostile Se 5: Running the Gauntlet 6: An Alien WInd 7: Ethiopian Interlude 8: Gate of Tears 9: Meadows of Gold 10: Islands Forbidden and Forgotten 11: Indian Ocean Paradise Part Two: To Seek 12: A Round of Cyclones 13: The Crystal Coast 14: From the Sublime to the Ridiculous 15: Round the Cape of Good Hope 16: Another Ocean Crossing 17: A Good Run Ashore 18: The Amazing Amazon 19: Hard Times 20: Bloody but Unbowed 21: Penal Paradise 22: West Indies Peepshow Part Three: To Find 23: Of Cabbage and Kings 24: Colombia--In and Out 25: A Forgotten Colony 26: Small Boat: Big DItch 27: Straining the Leash 28: A Near Disaster 29: A Real-Life Devil's Island 30: Against the Humboldt 31: Harking Back a Bit 32: Callao! 33: Kindred Spirits 34: A Splendid Reception 35: Among th Condors 36: Another Year: Another World 37: Where Angels Fear to Tread 38: The Floating Islands 39: Sailing on the Roof of the World 40: The Island of the Sun 41: Another Splendid Reception 42: Strange Encounters 43: Dances and Skeletons 44: A Trip to Town 45: Touch and Go Part Four: And Not to Yield 46: A Race Against Nature 47: High Comedy 48: Through the Clouds 49: Out of the Frying Pan 50: Into the Fire! 51: The Green Hell 52: The Valley of the Shadows 53: Beside the Green Pastures 54: The Crucified Land 55: Where the Ocean Meets the Pampas 56: El Supremo 57: The Wild Paraná 58: Some Bottle! Some Cork! 59: Triumph--and Disaster Postscript Appendix