by Tristan Jones

After a 60,000 mile voyage from the Dead Sea to Lake Titicaca, Jones is arrested in Buenos Aires. And after helping a Chilean friend to escape, he lands up in jail in Uruguay. On finally making it home to Britain, his boat 'Sea Dart' is impounded by customs because he can't pay the 'import' tax. In recounting these and other adventures, Tristan Jones tells a harrowing and moving story.

272pp, paperback

by Tristan Jones

Bill Conan, a middle-aged adventurer, has entered a 30,000 mile solo race around the world - his last chance to win status and success. His course leads him across the Atlantic, to disaster. Overboard, in the open sea, things look bad, but then comes Aka and his dolphin tribe, who work to keep him alive.

208pp, illustrations, paperback

Tristan Jones

A Novel of World War II

A powerful novel of action, intrigue, horror and suspense, set in June 1940. A British commando team sneaks into Amsterdam and, from under the nose of the Wehrmacht, steals the Dutch crown treasure from the Royal Palace and prepares to whisk it back to England. The story is highlighted by a galaxy of unforgettable characters.

228x152mm 288pp, paperback

by Tristan Jones

The great teller of sea stories - Tristan Jones - completed this new collection of yarns, reminiscences and adventures just before he died in June 1995.

200pp, paperback

by Tristan Jones

Jones spent two winters of continuous suspense and danger in this bleak polar region. He was trapped by violent snowstorms, attacked by a ravenous polar bear, and marooned on an ice pack in the Arctic Ocean - all the while grappling with loneliness and despair, plus dwindling supplies. Finally, when the ice shifted, crushing his boat like a matchbox, Jones had to deal with the horror of possible death.

200pp, paperback

T.Jones

Tristian Jones travels from the North Sea to the Black Sea via the River Rhine and danube.

229x148mm 332p Pb

RRP £10.99 OUR PRICE £8.99

A personal odyssey

by Tristan Jones

A gripping sea yarn of Tristan Jones' epic six year voyage sailing on the lowest body of water in the world and the highest.

410pp 31 b/w photos, 10 maps (paperback)

RRP £13.99 OUR PRICE £11.20

The Essentials of Single-handed Sailing.
By Tristan Jones

This course on single handed sailing is a highly personal perspective on both the science and the art of this ultimate challenge. This book gives the novice and the experienced sailor alike invaluble information and advice, simply and with humour.

229x149mm 226p illus. Pb

T. Jones

After 7 years ashore and after having his leg amputated, Jones returned to the sea and in 1983 set out from San Diego in 'Outward Leg' intending to circumnavigate the World from West to East.

229x148mm 286p Pb

RRP £10.99 OUR PRICE £8.99

Tristan Jones

Aboard his beloved 'Cresswell', a converted wooden lifeboat, Jones survives storms, dismastings, arrest by the Soviet navy, the smuggling of Edam cheeses and Barbary apes, and being sunk by whales. Quintessential Jones: exciting, poignant, outrageous and thoroughly amusing.

276pp, 4 maps, paperback

by Tristan Jones

This is the story of Tristan's favourite boat, Sea Dart, which became a living legend after he hauled her across Peru to reach Lake Titicaca, and from there across the Andes to Bolivia, Brazil, Argentina and out to the Atlantic.

It is the story of how she was built, her owners and voyages before Tristan fell in love with her, her adventures under his ownership, how she came to be guest of honour at the Explorer's Club dinner at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel in New York.

paperback, 115pp

by Anthony Dalton

In search of the real Tristan Jones.

This is the biography Tristan Jones did not want. His books were autobiographical, he said: "there is nothing more to tell". But there was. 'Wayward Sailor' is the last Tristan Jones story and the most incredible of all: The story of a man who invented himself.

Paperback

In search of the real Tristan Jones

by Anthony Dalton

The first biography of sailing's best-known storyteller exposes a life of invention and lies.

Tristan Jones, author, sailor, adventurer, is an immortal icon in the sailing world. He boasted a worldwide following of tens of thousands, thirsty to hear of his latest extraordinary adventure from the Arctic ice to the Dead Sea. But as 'Wayward Sailor' so eloquently proves, most of what we thought we knew about Tristan Jones is wrong.

This meticulously researched and fascinating biography has taken Anthony Dalton all over the world and introduced him to Jones's closest friends, personal letters, and the logbooks he never wanted the world to see. In it we learn that Tristan Jones the rollicking and ribald "Great Gatsby of the Sea" was an invention of his own brilliant imagination.

Hardback, 368pp

by Tristan Jones

Tristan Jones 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.

Pb. 304pp maps

Tristan was an immensely inspiring author and speaker. Here, he speaks at the New York Open Centre about his voyage down the Rhine and Danube Rivers at the time of the Iron Curtain in East Europe. Tristan, having had one leg amputated, undertook the voyage partly to inspire other disabled people. Tristan saw the vulnerability of communism during the voyage and experienced some of the dangers of sailing in East Europe at that time.

50 minutes

Tristan was a sailor, adventurer and successful author. Here, Tristan talks of his writing and his incredible adventures from the Amazon to the Arctic. This rare film contains unique adventures, yarns and humour.

60 mins.