Sheridan House
4 total works
More adventures and more encounters a la Tristan Jones, including the delivery of a yacht from Algiers to Marseilles with some unexpected machine-gun fire thrown in, and a stormy night mercy mission transporting a battered English lady and Senora Puig who gives birth at dawn.
Bill Conan, a middle-aged adventurer, has entered a 30,000 mile solo race around the world in the sloop Josephine, seeing it as his last chance to win status and success. Risking the ultimate test of skill, strength and endurance, Conan will follow his course across the vast expanse of the treacherous Atlantic, toward the one disaster a seaman most dreads. Overboard and alone on the open sea, his struggle can have only one end...
This is the final installment of Tristan Jones's sailing saga taking him 8000 miles from Istanbul to Thailand. From the tourist dominated ports of the eastern Mediterranean to African outposts peopled with famine refugees. Tristan mantains the unique perspective of a man who has had minimal contact with society's restraints, using his ascerbic wit to spare no fools and offer biting social commentary. After barely escaping with his life in South Yemen, he sets of for the Far East, determined to win out against the difficulties of his disability, whether battling a tropical cyclone or relishing a dwindling ration of fresh water in the vast windless expanse of the Indian Ocean.