tristan Jones

[graham]

After reading some of Tristan Jones's books I allways finished them wondering how much was fact and fantasy.

Theres no doubt you have to admire the man for travelling hundreds of thousands of sea miles in a variety of small boats ,all done on a shoe string.

I found this website with a remarkable insight into the mans character.http://www.reil1.net/tristan.shtml

 

[Talbot]

My understanding was that Tristan Jones was only able to finance his world treks by the sale of his books, and that this requirement meant that he needed to attract a sowider audience that would normally be expected from yet another sailing adventure story, so he did his best to make them "more interesting" . from a sailing point of view I consider it a bit of a shame as he had a lot that would be of great interest to us all. I enjoy reading his books, but can only manage one , then need a long break before attempting the next.