Saga of a Wayward Sailor »

The indefatigable viyager and storyteller Tristan Jones first gained widespread popularity with the publication of his bestselling Saga of a Wayward Sailor in 1979. It chronicles Jones' adventures from 1961 to 1968 aboard his beloved Cresswell, a wooden lifeboat converted to cruising sailboat. Jones survives storms, dismastings, arrest by the Soviet Navy, the smiggling of Edam cheeses and Barbary apes, and being sunk by whales.

Wall Street Journal

Lusty, rough-talking, full of comic interludes as well as harrowing ones...a unique chronicle.