![]() ![]() ![]() Then he bought a sailboat, tried whiskey smuggling, and scraped a living sailing the Mediterranean Sea. He joined the Royal Navy in 1946, after the end of World War II, and served for 14 years. He was the illegitimate son of a working-class girl, and was brought up mainly in orphanages, with little real education. Tristan Jones, whose real name was Arthur Jones, was born in 1929 in Liverpool. In his memoirs, he invented a fictional childhood and youth. His writing, while highly entertaining, often mixes fact and fiction. Starting in 1977, he wrote sixteen books and many articles about sailing and his adventures, including several memoirs. He spent most of his life at sea, first in the British Royal Navy, and then sailing in small yachts for various purposes, including self-appointed adventure trips. Tristan Jones at book signing, Annapolis Sailboat Show 1987Īrthur Jones, pen name Tristan Jones ( – 21 June 1995) was a British mariner and author. ![]()
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