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Sir Peter Blake - An Amazing Life

Sir Peter Blake was the outstanding yachtsman/adventurer of his time, an international sporting celebrity who achieved status and affection to rival that accorded New Zealand's other favourite adventurer son, Sir Edmund Hillary.

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Biography by Alan Safton
Sir Peter Blake was the outstanding yachtsman/adventurer of his time, an international sporting celebrity who achieved status and affection to rival that accorded New Zealand's other favourite adventurer son, Sir Edmund Hillary. In a 30-year sailing career, Sir Peter won the America's Cup and every significant blue-water race on the planet, including the Whitbread Round the World race, and slashed the record for the fastest non-stop circumnavigation of the world under sail. Knighted for his achievements and granted celebrity status in many countries, Sir Peter turned away from competitive sailing in the last years of his life to pursue a passion to help protect the environment that he had enjoyed so much. In this first-ever biography, Alan Sefton, an experienced yachting writer and administrator, and a close friend and colleague, traces Blake's extraordinary life - from the small boy crazy about the sea to the rigours of ocean racing and the high dramas of the America's Cup racing and its controversial aftermath, to the decision to devote his life to saving the world's oceans, and finally to his tragic death on the Amazon River. Hard cover, 444 pages, some colour pages, size 16x24.

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