08-08-2007
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Here's the forward to Wayward Sailor the real story of Jones...facts and missive fraud!
No one really knew Tristan Jones. He lived sixty-six years and managed to keep the first forty a mystery. He told us what he wanted us to believe, and he told the tales so well that we either believed or suspended disbelief. He was another Jack London, and escaping into his briny books will always remain a singular pleasure.
Yet even Tristan's most skeptical readers will marvel at the breadth of his deceits. As revealed in this uncompromising yet admiring biography, the real Tristan Jones was both a lesser and a greater man than his invention. He rejected the hand fate dealt him and dealt himself another. Enormously creative, he was, himself, his most creative act.
"Wayward Sailor is a thoroughly researched and absorbing account of Tristan Jones's lives--the one he created for himself, and the one he actually lived. This is a necessary book for anyone who has read Tristan Jones's stories with enjoyment or suspicion, or both.
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