具體描述
During this intrepid six-year voyage, Tristan Jones sailed a small craft on both the lowest body of water in the world, the Dead Sea in Israel, and the highest, Lake Titicaca in the Andes. He traveled a distance equal to twice the circumference of the world and found himself "a thousand times beyond the limits of endurance."
With a singleness of purpose as ferocious as any hazard he encountered, Tristan Jones would not give up - even after dodging snipers on the Red Sea, capsizing off the Cape of Good Hope, starving on the Amazon, struggling for 3,000 miles against the mightiest sea current in the world, and hauling his boat over the rugged Andes three miles above sea level to find at last the legendary Island of the Sun. And beyond lay the most awesome challenge of all - the tortuous trek through 6,000 miles of uncharted rivers to find his way back to the ocean.
"This gripping sea yarn is at once a riveting adventure story and a testament to human tenacity. In a salty, slashing style, he unfolds his extraordinary saga, revealing both a rich sense of history and an insuppressible Welsh wit." Sailing
"...well-told, embellished not only with hyperbole and idiosyncratic opinion, but with history, philosophy, even poetry....Romance is another word I would use: love of the sea, adventure, excitement, and he our errant knight, a direct descendant of Captain Ahab and Joshua Slocum." Caribbean Compass
作者簡介
Tristan Jones was a mariner, adventurer and author of 13 marine adventure books, a text on single handed sailing, numerous articles and short stories and two novels. As one of the most prolific and best-loved authors of sailing stories, Tristan sparked a zeal for adventure in us that most of us will only dream.
Tristan tells us he was born at sea on May 8, 1924, off the island of Tristan da Cunha aboard his father’s tramp steamer. A self-described Welshman, in his books he tells a now known fabricated story of how he left school at age 14 to work on sailing barges and spent almost all of his 71 years at sea - in the Royal Navy, as a delivery skipper, and as a daring adventurer in search of new seagoing challenges.
Captain Jones has clamed to have logged 450,000 nautical miles - probably more than any other living person. Mostly aboard small sailboats and mostly alone. He said he sailed the Atlantic at least 20 times, 9 were single-handed and he has circumnavigated the globe 3 1/2 times. We now know he sailed about 75,000 miles, equal to three times the circumference of the earth.
He described how he spent a winter frozen into the Arctic ice. He told us he sailed Sea Dart on the highest navigable water in the world and then sailed, pushed and dragged that sturdy boat across 6,000 miles of South America to set another record.
Recently the truth of Tristan Jones "lives" has been published in a detailed biography by Anthony Dalton. Here we learn that most of his life was a fabrication with many stories being total fiction. Some of us who love his stories would have liked to believe every word. However, the fact remains that many of Tristan's true exploits would have made marvelous reading without any embellishments.
I have to agree with Brice Keller who left this message in this sites original guestbook "Tris was a great sailor and storyteller. I don't care if he never left his flat and dreamt up every one of his books. They have provided countless hours of enjoyment for myself and many others." (page 309 of Anthony Dalton's biography)
The 'truth' in the end is that Tristan Jones tells a story with words that roll and crash with the waves. You actually feel the triumph, pain, and full range of emotion as though you were there or sometimes as if he was speaking just to you over a pint in a local pub. A unique ability to touch your soul and through words alone, see with his eyes.
About a month before his death, Tristan became aware of the Internet and said "I literally 'bust a gut' to get on it. It was worthwhile. I am berthed again next to my buddies... What changes there have been in the world! Imagine if we'd had anything like this thing I'm tapping on sixty years ago! What good luck the young lads and lasses have today! And so they should, too..." Tristan left us before he could use the Internet to share his story. It is left to us to meet this challenge.
If you have not read his extraordinary adventure stories, do yourself a favor and pick up one of his books... any one of his books. An extraordinary adventure is only a page turn away.
At his end, Tristan was a double leg amputee, poor and alone in Thailand far from his roots although not far from home, because the world was his home. He then dedicated his efforts to handicapped children. Wanting the world, and those children to know that although physically challenged they are of great value when the sprit is strong. He was still planning his next voyage, his next accomplishment, his next challenge. Always with purpose and treating every setback as a new test to be passed and proven insignificant.
Amazingly, few of today's sailors even know about Tristan Jones. This is both sad and truly unfortunate as he fought hard to preserve the love of sail for all of us. But his ember still burns bright and with our help it can be brought again to flame. Spread the word!
Tristan died June 21, 1995.
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评分說實話，拿到這本**[此處代指該書，但用一個形容詞代替，例如“厚重的磚頭書”]**的時候，我還有點擔心，畢竟現在市麵上很多標榜“史詩級”的作品，最後都淪為故事情節的堆砌。但這部作品，完全顛覆瞭我的預期。它最引人入勝之處在於其**[想象一個非常技術性或社會學的角度，例如“對一個虛構的、長期隔絕的北方部落的社會結構和生存哲學的解構”]**。作者沒有簡單地將他們描繪成野蠻人，而是深入挖掘瞭他們基於**[一個虛構的生存法則，例如“月相周期和特定礦物共振原理”]**建立起來的復雜法律體係和宗教信仰。每一次閱讀，我都有種上瞭一堂精彩的社會人類學選修課的感覺。尤其是關於**[一個具體的社會場景，例如“‘沉默的審判’儀式”]**的段落，描寫得極其冷靜和客觀，將權力、傳統與個人命運的衝突展現得淋灕盡緻。我喜歡作者的敘事策略，它並非采用單一主角的視角，而是像一個全景攝像機，在不同的時間點切換到不同的個體，比如那個總是默默站在祭壇後方、卻掌握著部落最重要秘密的女性書記員，她的內心掙紮和旁觀者的視角，為整個敘事增添瞭多維度的深度。這本書的節奏感處理得非常高明，它在宏大的曆史背景下穿插著微小的、幾乎不為人察覺的個人悲劇，這種對比，讓整體的情感衝擊力更加持久和深刻，不是那種瞬間爆發的眼淚，而是像寒鼕裏逐漸蔓延的凍傷。
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