The Improbable Voyage

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Description for THE IMPROBABLE VOYAGE by Tristan Jones: THE IMPROBABLE VOYAGE is the astonishing account of TRistan Jones' 2,307 mile voyage across Europe in Outward Leg. Continuin g his round-the-world journey, Tristan traveled from the North Sea to the Black Sea via the rivers Rhine and Danube. Tristan welcomed each difficulty as a challenge to be met and overcome. Battling ice and cold, life-threatening rapids and narrow defiles, German bureaucrats and Romanian frontier police, Tristan made his way through eight countries and emerged triumphant, if battered, bruised and penniless, at the Black Sea. Tristan gives us a vivid glimpse of the quality of life along Europe's oldest water routes and behind the Iron Curtain. Show more