Saga of a Wayward Sailor

by TristanJones (Author)

• Used

  Paperback
  1995

  $3.85

  This is the story of the author's voyage aboard Cresswell , a wooden lifeboat converted to a cruising sailboat, accompanied by Nelson, his one-eyed, three-legged labrador. Together they sail the Baltic Sea, the English Channel, the Bay of Biscay, the Atlantic Ocean and the inland waterways of Western Europe. They survive storms, dismastings, arrest by the Soviet Navy, and being sunk by whales. The reader is transported from terror and dispair to hilarity by this entertaining tale.

• Used

  Paperback
  2003

  $5.78

  Saga of a Wayward Sailor is the engaging tale of Tristan Jones' sailing adventures around the North Atlantic aboard the Cresswell. Jones survives storms, dismastings, arrest by the Soviet Navy, being sunk by whales, and the smuggling of Edam cheese and Barbary apes. Through his eyes we get to meet an intriguing cast of dockside characters: Karl, the German fish-canning salesman; Pete, the Australian smuggler; Sissie, the Englishwoman who wheedles her way permanently aboard; and Nelson, Jones' three-legged dog.