The Improbable Voyage of the Yacht Outward Leg Into, Through, and Out of the Heart of Europe
by Jones, Tristan
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- Hardcover
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- first
- Condition
- Very Good-/Very Good hard cover
- ISBN 10
- 0370310144
- ISBN 13
- 9780370310145
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About This Item
Bodley Head. 1st printing,1986. Very Good-/Very Good hard cover. 12mo,boards,274pp. edgewear,scratches,wrinkle top front,price clipped,dust jacket. inscribed by author front end page. light shelfwear cover. text tanning,clean with some gutter stress title page. maritime.
Synopsis
The Improbable Voyage is the 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, Jones traveled from the North Sea to the Black Sea via the rivers Rhine and Danube. Battling ice and cold, life-threatening rapids and narrow defiles, German bureaucrats and Romanian frontier police, the indomitable Jones made his way through eight countries and emerged triumphant, if battered, bruised and penniless, at the Black Sea.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.
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- Gail Kennon Book-Comber (US)
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- 28845
- Title
- The Improbable Voyage of the Yacht Outward Leg Into, Through, and Out of the Heart of Europe
- Author
- Jones, Tristan
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good-/Very Good hard cover
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st printing,1986
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0370310144
- ISBN 13
- 9780370310145
- Publisher
- Bodley Head
- Place of Publication
- London
- This edition first published
- 1986
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