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Adrift

di Tristan Jones

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Emerging from the South American wilderness after adventures related in The Incredible Voyage, Tristan Jones finally makes it home to Britain to find his vessel, the tiny, nearly indestructible Sea Dart, impounded by customs officials because he cannot pay the import tax. In his quest for the means to liberate his boat, he takes any work he can get: stoking the boilers at Harrod's, regaling TV talk show viewers with wild stories, and in New York skippering one-day around the lighthouse cruises.… (altro)
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What a wonderful tale spinner!. This is the story of Jones' departure from South America (following the cross-continent trip in The Incredible Voyage, which I have not yet read)back home to Great Britain and then skippering other boats to the US and Virgin Islands. He is eloquent about his love for the ocean, the importance of the freedom of the seas, and his concern for how we are despoiling them.
There is more time spent on land, and the travails of surviving without an income. Some people might consider him no better than a bum, but his can-do outlook on life and philosophy of "I got myself into this mess, it's up to me to get myself out" carry him through.
He shows respect for all the lower class people he meets--perhaps more respect than he has for the upper class, at least those who do no real work and just live on profits made at the expense of others. He moves freely between the different levels of society, e.g. getting a response from Prince Charles while living among Bowery bums in NY.
His adventures sound fantastic, and he has such a personable approach that you want to keep reading. Towards the end he becomes more philosophical, a distillation of many thoughts he's had during his long solitary travels. Since I've read how he interacts with people, how he puts his values to practice, I welcome his gems gleaned from his experiences. He is passionate about saving the oceans, yet does so from a solitary approach, not joining in with the nascent environmental movement of the 1970's.
I wish I had met him. ( )
  juniperSun | Jun 22, 2016 |
I really enjoy this author, and although this is one of his more serious books, it is still funny in places. ( )
  olyra | Jan 29, 2007 |
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delightful climax,... The Welshman is mellowing, but still a charmer.
 
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Ar y diwedd y mae barnu.
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--Yr Hen Gyrys O (a Welsh bard), The Red Book of Hergest, A.D. 1397
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To Ludg, Govannon, Taran, Riannon, and Dadga of the Caldron: Survival, Defiance, and Dreams--For Those in Peril
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In the 60,000-mile voyage just ended as this book begins, I had taken an ocean-going craft as close to the heavens as may be done until man finds water among the stars.
[foreword] In 1938 my first sailing skipper was Tansy Lee (1866-1958).
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Wooden boats are made of the same stuff as we are, ourselves. They are born in the forests...In that form, they, like us, reach upright for the sky and the stars, the wind, and the rain. (p 227)
Perhaps humor proves that man does indeed have a soul? I could not understand how anyone could possibly live long without humor, and I pitied the poor souls who lived out their existence in that particular circle of hell. (p 223-4)
Alcoholism and probably drug or any other self-damaging addiction is a symptom of total rejection...of values as they are sold to you or forced upon you...are acts of defiance, but they are futile, because they are self-destructive. In this world the only real act of defiance can be in art expressed...Any art--even if it is only a prayer. And should the addiction persist after the cause of it is clearly recognized, then it is nothing more than a symptom of weakness...human weakness caused by fear. Fear caused by not realizing that fear is only the netherside of intelligence. (p212-3)
...we only truly fear in other people what we know is inside ourselves... (p185)
I had seen both ends and the middle of the scum-infested drug-trade...the pot-bellied bastards who pay peanuts for the stuff to half-starved Indian cultivators...the middlemen poncing around in the posh hotels...Now I had met two of the end products of this chain of mental mutilation. I thought of all the kids...born into a world more beautiful than ever they imagine...who should be the inheritors of all the poetry and beauty that man has brought into this already wonderful piece of mechanism that we call Earth. (p186)
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Emerging from the South American wilderness after adventures related in The Incredible Voyage, Tristan Jones finally makes it home to Britain to find his vessel, the tiny, nearly indestructible Sea Dart, impounded by customs officials because he cannot pay the import tax. In his quest for the means to liberate his boat, he takes any work he can get: stoking the boilers at Harrod's, regaling TV talk show viewers with wild stories, and in New York skippering one-day around the lighthouse cruises.

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