Ice! | 
 enlarge | Author: Tristan Jones
Publisher: Sheridan House
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  10 reviews
Sales Rank: 604913
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 282
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.8
Dimensions (in): 8.2 x 5.4 x 0.9
ISBN: 0924486899
Dewey Decimal Number: 920
EAN: 9780924486890
ASIN: 0924486899
Publication Date: September 1995
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Product Description
When the Royal Navy discharged Tristan Jones and told him he was physically unfit for seafaring, he got hold of a small craft, converted it to a cruising ketch, and kicked away from shore. Determined to sail farther north than anyone else, he set out from Iceland accompanied only by his dog, Nelson. For two winters he endured constant danger in bleak polar regions. He survived violent snowstorms, a ravenous polar bear, and getting stranded on an ice pack in the Arctic Ocean, all while grappling with loneliness, despair, and dwindling supplies. Then the ice shifted, crushing his boat like a matchbox, and he came face-to-face with cold oblivion…
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Retiring on a pension after being torpedoed in WWII, Tristan Jones embarks on a test of endurance that will last over two years, nearly killing him more than once. Attempting to sail farther North than anyone ever has, he embarks from Iceland on the Cresswell in the summer of 1959. His only companion? A three-legged, one-eyed Labrador named Nelson. He spends his first winter holed up near an Eskimo village in a Greenland fjord. After a violent snowstorm and without an adequate supply of food, he spends a full week digging himself out of enormous snow drifts until he is able to be seen and rescued. This incident kicks off a series of impossible adventures as he voyages to the treacherous waters of the North Pole. His second winter at sea finds him trapped in an enormous ice pack in the Arctic Ocean. For 366 days he is marooned on the craft. As he faces his loneliness and the possibility of his own death under the dazzling Northern lights, Tristan Jones's incomparable sailing adventure reaches an unimaginable climax. Ice! is a classic tale of adventure, its author acclaimed by Time magazine as "someone Lindbergh would have understood".
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 5 for fantasy June 16, 2005
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
It is a terrific book. However it is - as Anthony Dalton's new biography of Jones shows - complete fiction.
But that is not to diminish the writing of the tale - Jones imaginings make for a "real" adventure in the minds of his readers and that is what makes for a good book.
 Tristan meets Vanilla Ice December 23, 2004
5 out of 9 found this review helpful
Stop collaborate and listen to this review
Tristan Jones is back with a new addition
Flow like a harpoon daily and nightly
Tristan rocks the mike like a vandal
Girls were hot wearing less than bikinis
Riding Tristan while driving lamborguinis
Gunshots rang out like a bell
Tristan droped his 9 and let out some shells
Lost his leg, burnt on a candle
Polar bears on standby
Waiting to bite a leg off
Oops its gone burnt off by that candle
Ice Ice by Tristan Jones
Ice Ice we like it
could it be true December 9, 2003
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
I've read all tj's books and I have commissioned wonderful art inspired about him. This one is the best. It will take you where you never thought you could go, you never thought it existed
Spellbound December 30, 2002
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
I have recently started reading books on the ocean & sailing authored by crusty old sea dogs.New to this genre I had no idea what to expect...However I was absolutely spellbound!!Tristans writing is colourful & entertaining, emotional yet humerous.I highly reccommend to anyone looking to pass some time.WARNING..This ebook could very well consume youre waking hours until completed.
Love & Light
Read this one first and your hooked!!! September 4, 1999
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
While this is not the first of Tristan's books, it should be the first one that you read. It really is the story that starts it all. When a close friend, Capt N., introduced me to Tristan, this was the book he gave me. I will never be able to thank him enough. From the very start, he grabs you, takes you hostage, and throws you down below. With you as a involved observer and Nelson, his one eyed three legged dog, Tristan Jones will fill you and chill you with his voyage to THE ARTIC!!!
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