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The Incredible Voyage:

A Personal Odyssey
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Sheridan House, Inc., Jan 1, 1996 - Sports & Recreation - 410 pages
Over the course of the intrepid six-year voyage recounted herein, Tristan Jones sailed a small craft on both the Dead Sea in Israel and Lake Titicaca in the Andes, respectively the lowest and highest bodies of water in the entire world. He traversed a distance equal to twice Earth's circumference, and found himself "a thousand times beyond the limits of endurance." He also dodged snipers on the Red Sea, capsized off the Cape of Good Hope, starved on the Amazon, struggled for 3,000 miles against the mightiest sea current in the world, and hauled his boat over the rugged Andes to find the legendary Island of the Sun, beyond which lay the most awesome challenge of all: a torturous odyssey - across 6,000 miles of uncharted rivers - in search of the coast.
  

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Selected pages

Contents

TO STRIVE
1
A Brave Concept
3
Track of Barbara from August 1969
5
The Beleaguered Land
10
The Dead Sea
15
The Hostile Sea
21
Running the Gauntlet
29
An Alien Wind
36
Against the Humboldt
193
Harking Back a Bit
197
A Woodcut Map Copied from a Map Made by Ptolemy
198
Callao
203
Kindred Spirits
208
A Splendid Reception
213
Among the Condors
218
Another World
222

Running the Arab Gauntlet Under Sail
40
Ethiopian Interlude
42
Gate of Tears
47
Meadows of Gold
59
The Western Indian Ocean
61
Islands Forbidden and Forgotten
68
Indian Ocean Paradise
72
TO SEEK
80
A Round of Cyclones
81
The Crystal Coast
86
From the Sublime to the Ridiculous
93
Round the Cape of Good Hope
98
Another Ocean Crossing
102
A Good Run Ashore
106
The Amazing Amazon
111
The Middle Reach of Los Estrechos
117
Hard Times
119
Bloody but Unbowed
128
Penal Paradise
133
West Indies Peepshow
138
TO FIND
144
Of Cabbages and Kings
145
ColombiaIn and Out
152
A Forgotten Colony
159
The Lost Scottish Colony of Darien Panama
167
Big Ditch
173
Straining at the Leash
179
A Near Disaster
183
A RealLife Devils Island
188
Where Angels Fear to Tread
227
The Floating Islands
230
Sailing on the Roof of the World
235
The Island of the Sun
245
The Island of the Sun Lake Titicaca
246
Another Splendid Reception
258
Strange Encounters
263
Dances and Skeletons
272
A Trip to Town
276
Touch and Go
282
AND NOT TO YIELD
289
A Race against Nature
291
High Comedy
296
Through the Clouds
303
Out of the Frying Pan
309
Into the Fire
315
The Green Hell
320
The Green Hell
321
The Valley of the Shadow
327
Beside the Green Pastures
333
The Crucified Land
339
Where the Ocean Meets the Pampas
344
El Supremo
350
The Wild Parana
354
Some Bottle Some Cork
365
Triumphand Disaster
370
Postscript
378
DOCUMENTS
380
Copyright

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About the author (1996)

Tristan Jones is one of the best-known authors of sailing stories writing today. A Welshman, he left school at age 14 to work on sailing barges and spent the rest of his life at sea - as a Navy seaman, a delivery skipper, and as a daring adventurer in search of new seagoing challenges. The author of 16 books, Jones lived in Phuket, Thailand for 10 years before his death in 1995.

Bibliographic information

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TitleThe Incredible Voyage: A Personal Odyssey
AuthorTristan Jones
Editionillustrated, reprint
PublisherSheridan House, Inc., 1996
ISBN0924486902, 9780924486906
Length410 pages
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