Aka Author:Tristan Jones Bill 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 m... more »ost dreads. Overboard and alone on the open sea, his struggle can have only one end... But Bill Conan will not be alone. And in place of death will come an incredible encounter with Aka and his dolphin tribe who discover his plight, communicate with him, and work to keep him alive.« less