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Aka by Tristan Jones (1998, Trade Paperback)

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Author: Tristan Jones. Title: Aka. Format: Paperback. Missing Information?. Release Date: 09/01/1998. Publisher: Sheridan House. Genre: Sports & Hobbies. Country/Region of Manufacture: US.

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Product Identifiers

PublisherSheridan House, Incorporated

ISBN-101574090267

ISBN-139781574090260

eBay Product ID (ePID)803995

Product Key Features

Book TitleAka

Number of Pages224 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication Year1998

TopicBoating, General

GenreSports & Recreation, Fiction

AuthorTristan Jones

FormatTrade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height0.6 in

Item Weight11.7 Oz

Item Length9 in

Item Width6 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceTrade

LCCN98-195971

Dewey Edition21

ReviewsA lyrical and intelligent account of both man and dolphin and the relationship they have to the sea and to each other... This book is a requirement for Jones' fans and for those who have yet to cruise the world with Jones, A novel about a participant in a single-handed race around the world who falls overboard and is saved by a gang of bottle-nosed dolphins., This is a seafaring tale about a middle aged man s last ditch attempt to win status and success by entering a single-hand around the world race. He falls overboard, and as he fights to stay alive, encounters a pod of migrating dolphin, including one named Aka. A stirring adventure by a true adventurer.

Dewey Decimal823.9/14

SynopsisBill Conan, a middle-aged adventurer, has entered a 30,000 mile solo race around the world in the sloop Josephine, seeing it as his last chance to win status and success. Risking the ultimate test of skill, strength and endurance, Conan will follow his course across the vast expanse of the treacherous Atlantic, toward the one disaster a seaman most dreads. Overboard and alone on the open sea, his struggle can have only one end...