TRISTAN JONES

Durante los seis años que duró su increíble viaje en el que navegó en una pequeña embarcación de vela en las aguas más bajas del mundo —el mar Muerto—, en Israel, y en las más altas —el lago Titicac

In a salty, slashing style, Tristan Jones unfolds his extraordinary sagaa six-year voyage during which he covered a distance equal to twice the circumference of the worldrevealing both a rich sense of history and an insuppressible Welsh wit.With a singleness of purpose as ferocious as any hazard he encountered, Tristan Jones would not give upeven after dodging snipers on the Red Sea, capsizing off the Cape of Good Hope, starving in 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.

Ancient Chinese legends tell of heroic attempts to navigate the waterways of the Kra peninsula which divides the Andaman Sea from the Gulf of Thailand. Yet despite efforts over the last century by expeditions from several Western navies, there was no record of a successful crossingnone, that is, until renowned sailor Tristan Jones took on the challenge.To Venture Further is the inspiring story of this memorable exploit by one of the finest sailing adventure writers of our time. Accompanied by his German mate, Thomas, and three disabled Thai youths, Jones makes the short but exceedingly difficult passage across the Kra in a small seagoing fishing boat. Facing floating debris, homemade dams, mechanical failure, and precariously low funds, Joneswhose left leg was amputated several years beforeremains determined to win out against all obstacles, no matter how insurmountable they seem.With characteristically acerbic wit, Jones offers shrewd commentary on the Westernization of modern Thailand, bemoaning the destruction of a once-idyllic land. And whether confronting a band of raucous teenage monks, outwitting pirates in the Gulf of Thailand, or cruising a dry riverbed by hitching his boat onto an elephant, he continues to exhibit the awesome stubbornness and implacable courage of a man willing to sacrifice all comforts for the unknown and seemingly impossible.