Ice!

JONES, Tristan.

Item Number: 112520

Kansas City: Sheed Andrews and McMeel, Inc, 1978.

First edition of British mariner Tristan Jones’ memoir of his 1959 attempt to sail a boat farther north than had ever been accomplished. Octavo, original cloth, cartographic endpapers. From the library of of James Stephen “Steve” Fossett with his bookplate to the pastedown. American businessman and record-setting aviator Steve Fossett became the first person to fly solo nonstop around the world in 2002 in his 10-story high balloon Spirit of Freedom. He completed the 2002 trip in 13 days, 8 hours, and 33 minutes and set records for both the Longest Distance Flown Solo in a Balloon and Fastest Balloon Flight Around the World. Fossett was also one of sailing’s most prolific distance record holders set the Absolute World Speed Record for airships with a Zeppelin NT in 2004. He received numerous awards and honors throughout his career including aviation’s highest award, the Gold Medal of the Fédération Aéronautique Internationale (FAI), which he was awarded in 2002. Fossett disappeared on September 3, 2007 while flying a light aircraft over the Great Basin Desert, between Nevada and California. Near fine in a very good dust jacket. Jacket design by Wilson McLean. Jacket photograph by Paul Becker.

Acclaimed by Time Magazine as "someone who Lindbergh would have understood," in the summer of 1959, Jones attempted to sail a boat farther north than had ever been accomplished, spending two successive winters trapped by violent snowstorms in a Greenland fjord and in the middle of an ice pack in the Arctic Ocean. "Jones's adventures with his boat rival Papillon's in excitement, and he tells them with the gusto of an old seafarer" (John Hemming).