The Improbable Voyage

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The Improbable Voyage is the astonishing account of Tristan Jones' 2,307-mile voyage across Europe in an ocean-going trimaran. Continuing the story begun in OUTWARD LEG, Tristan tells of his round-the-world voyage whose purpose is to show the world that physical disability need not preclude a life of adventure and challenge.

Having half-recovered in an Amsterdam hospital from broken ribs and a collapsed lung, Tristan, together with his crew, sets off up the Rhine and experiences the most severe winter known in Europe for many years. Battling ice and cold, petty-minded bureaucrats and customs officials, Bulgarian gun-boats and Romanian frontier police, he charts his hazardous course up the Rhine and down the Danube. Flying the Red Ensign, the Stars and Stripes, and the Red Dragon of Wales, Tristan sails his indomitable way through Holland, Germany, Austria, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Yugoslavia, Romania and Bulgaria to emerge triumphant, if penniless, in the Black Sea where for the first time in forty-five years of seafaring he is invited to dine in an Officers' Mess, aboard HMS NAIAD.

But it is the people from all walks of life whom Tristan meets on this unlikely voyage and the adventures, both hilarious and daunting, that he and his crew experience along the way, that form the substance of a book that will warm the hearts of the ever-increasing number of devotees of this rare Welsh sailor and writer.

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