Yarns is a collection of some of Jones' finest stories. He tells how he began his writing career, and draws on his many adventures to evoke some of the memorable people he has met and to describe some of the most beautiful cruising grounds in the world.
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...a burning natural talent....his writings are a pleasure for any lover of good writing as well as a brilliant collection of yarns about his life, his sailing adventures, and his thoughts about man and the sea. -- Lloyds List, October 1993
The characters and capers, including a Sherlock Holmes-style mystery, pour deliciously from the pen of this legendary adventurer. --Cruising World, December 1990
The characters and capers, including a Sherlock Holmes-style mystery, pour deliciously from the pen of this legendary adventurer. --Cruising World, December 1990
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Tristan Jones, a legendary sailor, is the author of 16 books, including Saga of a Wayward Sailor, The Incredible Voyage and A Steady Trade. He 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.
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Not surprisingly, I learned about Tristan Jones' writing pretty early in my career as a cruising sailor. I even read a couple of his books, many years ago. I believe they were his stories about _Ice_ and _The Incredible Voyage_.
After reading them, I made a vow never to read any more Tristan Jones. My reason? There were enough of what I considered to be serious exaggerations in his "fact-tellings" for me to be able to trust anything else he wrote. What was really true (and, therefore, useful knowledge for a novice cruising skipper) and what was not, I could not decipher. I was looking for a practical cruising mentor, not a story-teller. Since then, I've cruised 50,000 nautical miles over eleven years. I'm now confident enough in my "cruising skills" to appreciate the storyteller in Tristan Jones. And what a superb story-teller he was. This book is a delightful collection of (exactly as the title indicates) YARNS. Seafaring yarns: real life adventures (or quasi-reasonable recollections of the same) worth their weight in gold. Tristan Jones is long gone now. Only his stories survive. More to the point, the "style" of sailboat cruising about which he writes is a rapidly disappearing phenomenon. Try finding a sextant or reduction tables on any modern yacht, or a lead line, let alone someone who knows how to use them. They've gone the way of sliderules; replaced by the GPS, small-boat radars, electronic depth sounders, laptop computers with charting software, refrigeration, solar panels, over-sized auxillary engines, . . . the list goes on and on. "Cruising" has rapidly metamorphized into a hi-tech adventure, with the bulk of the fleet more interested in staying close to shore and a marina than venturing out upon the world's vast open seas. The adventures of the "old time cruisers," the ilk of Tristan Jones, Hal Roth, the Smeetons and Pardeys, are rapidly becoming cultural treasures. Their experiences are unlikely to be repeated in the future. But, like good folk music, they will be remembered from generation to generation. Among seafarers, they are already legends. In the case of Tristan Jones, there may be no better place to start than this book of YARNS.
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I have often been asked whether my drive to write came from my voyaging experiences, or whether I went voyaging in order to be able to write about it. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Sea Dart, Mary Celeste, New York, Red Sea, Indian Ocean, Mato Grosso, South America, The Incredible Voyage, Amyas Cupling, Lake Titicaca, Sherlock Holmes, United States, Bloody Neverbudge, Cornhill Magazine, Dei Gratia, King's Bay, Royal Navy, West Indies, Antarctic Peninsula, Cape Horn, Deception Island, Gulf Stream, Habakuk Jephson, Kilwa Kisiwani, Paso de Moros New!
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I have often been asked whether my drive to write came from my voyaging experiences, or whether I went voyaging in order to be able to write about it. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Sea Dart, Mary Celeste, New York, Red Sea, Indian Ocean, Mato Grosso, South America, The Incredible Voyage, Amyas Cupling, Lake Titicaca, Sherlock Holmes, United States, Bloody Neverbudge, Cornhill Magazine, Dei Gratia, King's Bay, Royal Navy, West Indies, Antarctic Peninsula, Cape Horn, Deception Island, Gulf Stream, Habakuk Jephson, Kilwa Kisiwani, Paso de Moros New!
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- Dutch Treat by Tristan Jones in Front Matter (1), and Front Matter (2)
- A Passage to India by E.M. Forster on page 4
- Life of Johnson (Oxford World's Classics) by James Boswell on page 223
- Riddle of the Sands by Erskine Childers on page 4
- The Owl and the Pussy-Cat by Edward Lear on page 197
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