The Improbable Voyage

The sailor-author navigates his famous yacht, Outward Leg, across the rivers of Europe in this travel memoir that's "vintage Tristan Jones" ( Publishers Weekly ). 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.