Aka
Aka
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Bill Conan, a middle-aged adventurer, has entered a 30,000 mile solo race around the world in sloop Josephine, seeing it as his last chance to win status and success. Risking the 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.
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Aka by Tristan Jones
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...
A lyrical and intelligent account of both man and dolphin and the relationship they have to the sea and to each other.. This book is a requirement for Jones' fans and for those who have yet to cruise the world with Jones * Library Journal *
This is a seafaring tale about a middle aged man s last ditch attempt to win status and success by entering a single-hand around the world race. He falls overboard, and as he fights to stay alive, encounters a pod of migrating dolphin, including one named Aka. A stirring adventure by a true adventurer. * Latitudes & Attitudes *
A novel about a participant in a single-handed race around the world who falls overboard and is saved by a gang of bottle-nosed dolphins. * Wooden Boat *
This is a seafaring tale about a middle aged man s last ditch attempt to win status and success by entering a single-hand around the world race. He falls overboard, and as he fights to stay alive, encounters a pod of migrating dolphin, including one named Aka. A stirring adventure by a true adventurer. * Latitudes & Attitudes *
A novel about a participant in a single-handed race around the world who falls overboard and is saved by a gang of bottle-nosed dolphins. * Wooden Boat *
Tristan Jones was one of the most prolific and best-loved authors of sailing stories in our time. A Welshman, he left school at age 14 to work on sailing barges and spent the rest of his life at sea--in the Royal Navy, as a delivery skipper, and as a daring adventurer in search of new seagoing challenges. The author of 16 books, including Seagulls in My Soup and One Hand for Yourself and One for the Ship, Jones lived in Phuket, Thailand for ten years, until his death in June 1995.
| SKU | Unavailable |
| ISBN 13 | 9781574090260 |
| ISBN 10 | 1574090267 |
| Title | Aka |
| Author | Tristan Jones |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Rowman & Littlefield |
| Year published | 1998-09-01 |
| Number of pages | 224 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
| Note | Unavailable |