Sir Peter Blake: An Amazing Life: the Authorised Biography

by Alan Sefton (Author)

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  Hardcover
  2005

  $31.02

  Sir Peter Blake was the outstanding yachtsman of his time. During his 30 year sailing career he won every significant blue-water race on the planet including The Americas Cup and the Whitbread Round the World Race, and slashed the record for the fastest non-stop circumnavigation of the world under sail. Alan Sefton traces Blake's extraordinary life, from the small boy crazy about the sea, to the rigours of ocean racing, to the decision to devote his life to saving the world's oceans and finally to his tragic death on the Amazon River. Alan Sefton traces Blake's extraordinary life, from the small boy crazy about the sea, to the rigours of ocean racing, to the decision to devote his life to saving the world's oceans and finally to his tragic death on the Amazon River.

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  Hardcover
  2004

  $3.45

  The late Sir Peter Blake is known to all New Zealanders as the world?s most celebrated and honoured yachtsmen/adventurer, the man who seized the America?s Cup. In recent years, of course, Blake turned away from international yachting to embark on a plan with the yacht Seamaster to draw attention to threats to the world?s environment. Tragically, as we know, in late 2001 Blake was murdered by pirates aboard Seamaster at the mouth of the Amazon. In this first-ever biography, Alan Sefton, 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 America?s Cup triumphs, to the decision to devote his life to saving the world?s oceans, and to Blake?s sad end on the Amazon. Among many details never before revealed will be the true story of what happened behind the scenes at Team New Zealand as the crew broke up and Coutts and Butterworth jumped ship. The biography is written with the full backing of Pippa, Lady Blake, who has made Sir Peter?s files and papers available to Sefton.