The incredible voyage
Subtitle: a personal odyssey
By: Tristan Jones ; foreword by John Hemming.
Publisher: Bodley Head
Published: 1978
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 390
Subjects: Jones, Tristan, 1924-; Voyages and travels.
Description: Over the course of the intrepid six-year voyage recounted herein, Tristan Jones sailed a small craft on both the Dead Sea in Israel and Lake Titicaca in the Andes, respectively the lowest and highest bodies of water in the entire world. He traversed a distance equal to twice Earth's circumference, and found himself “a thousand times beyond the limits of endurance.” He also dodged snipers on the Red Sea, capsized off the Cape of Good Hope, starved on the Amazon, struggled for 3,000 miles against the mightiest sea current in the world, and hauled his boat over the rugged Andes to find the legendary Island of the Sun, beyond which lay the most awesome challenge of all: a torturous odyssey across 6,000 miles of uncharted rivers in search of the coast.
Notes: Map on lining papers.