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The Improbable Voyage of the Yacht Outward Leg Into, Through, and Out of the Heart of Europe [Paperback]

Tristan Jones (Author)
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The Improbable Voyage is the astonishing account of master sailor and storyteller Tristan Jones' 2,307-mile voyage across Europe in an oceangoing trimaran, Outward Leg. Continuing his round-the-world journey, Tristan traveled from the North Sea to the Black Sea via the rivers Rhine and Danube. Tristan welcomed each difficulty-including a Bulgarian gunboat-as a challenge to be met and overcome. Battling ice and cold, life-threatening rapids and narrow defiles, German bureaucrats and Romanian frontier police, the indomitable Tristan made his way through eight countries and emerged triumphant, if battered, bruised and penniless, at the Black Sea.

This voyage provides a memorable addition to the travel accounts of Central Europe. Tristan gives us a vivid glimpse of the quality of life along Europe's oldest water routes and behind the Iron Curtain. Flying the Red Ensign, the Stars and Stripes, and the Red Dragon of Wales, and playing bagpipe music at full volume, Tristan announced his passage in every town, city, and country. He became legendary along the Danube. --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.

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Tristan Jones is one of the best-known 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. --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.

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  • Paperback: 332 pages
  • Publisher: Quill (August 1988)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0688082548
  • ISBN-13: 978-0688082543
  • Product Dimensions: 9.2 x 6 x 1.1 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 1.3 pounds
  • Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #3,108,999 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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What I'm writing now is an amalgam of my thoughts as they were in St. Katharine's Dock at the prospect ahead, and my conclusions now in Kastellorizo after the fact, a year and three thousand miles later. Read the first page
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outward leg, starboard ama, wing decks, board our boat, river ships, canal authority, frontier police, alles gut, armed youths, port captain
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Black Sea, Iron Gates, New York, West Germany, United States, Big Daddy, Veliko Gradiste, Donau Kanal, Katharine's Dock, World Trade Centre, Iron Curtain, May Day, North Sea, Nurnberg Docks, Comrade Maugham, German Army, Manfred Peter, San Diego, Carpathian Mountains, Lake Balaton, Red Army, Rumanian Danube, Clare Francis, English Channel, Horst Besler
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3.0 out of 5 stars Navigating the Iron Curtain, September 15, 2000
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What Tristan Jones lacks in great writing skills he makes up for with great story telling and sheer guts. In 1985, as the Soviet Union was quickly approaching its high water, mark he threw caution to the wind and began a tumultuous journey that would take him through the badlands of the Iron Curtain. Plunging up the freezing Rhine in his ocean going tri-hulled yacht, wintering in Germany, and losing his American crew of two to homesickness and better job opportunities were bad enough for this one legged sailor, but Jones had an objective that he wouldn't put aside lightly. He took on a fresh crew of one, a young German boy, and set off to conquer the Danube and Eastern Europe as the first person to transnavigate Europe in an ocean going tri-hull. The Improbable Voyage is a thought provoking perspective of Central and Eastern Europe at the height of the cold war. It highlights Europe's divisiveness during this time from one of Europe's major arteries, the Danube. It is realism at its best from the heart of a spirited traveler.
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4.0 out of 5 stars TRISTAN JONES, June 1, 2009
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Tristan's stories are sometimes a stretch of the imagination to visualize for some modern day river adventurers. Perhaps that is because of his disdain for commercialization of the freedom available from living on the water, but he was certainly a direct person and capable of putting forth his always fair views. This story inspires one to take the same path on the Rhein/Danube voyage which is no longer quite so improbable because of the finished canal between the rivers, and the governments are not so harsh as they were in Tristan's time. This is a refreshing change from the historical/cultural books about central and eastern Europe, which are usually written by literary academics traveling under more probable circumstances, i.e. someone else tends to the details that Jones was forced to handle without large disposable funds.
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