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. Cover Title Page Contents Foreword PART ONE: Into 1. On Pioneering 2. Some Boot, Some Lace 3. More Haste—Less Speed 4. The Pause That Refreshed 5. Deutschland über Alles 6. The Lilt of the Lorelei 7. Bounding on the Main and Rebounding 8. ’Mid Pleasures and Palaces 9. Blocked and Beset PART TWO: Through 10. Out of the Trap and Over the Gap 11. Docks, Rocks, Stocks, Old Jocks and Shocks 12. Death Trap 13. Gorgeous Gorges 14. Aspiring Spires 15. Inquiring Choirs 16. From the Sublime to the Gorblime 17. The Bear’s Paw 18. The Setup 19. Running the Gauntlet 20. The Green Fields Beyond 21. A Tale of Two Cities 22. The Naked Truth 23. When You Go, You Go Yugoslavia 24. Beautiful and Bad; Charming and Repulsive 25. Last Outposts PART THREE: Out 26. Through the Iron Gates 27. The Lost Planet and the Void 28. Learning About Rumania 29. Captains and Capitalists 30. Hulls, Hells and Highwater 31. Thalassa! 32. Victorious, Happy and Half-Knackered List of Ports of Call on Outward Leg’s Voyage across Europe Copyright 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
