Sir Peter Blake : an amazing life / Alan Sefton.

Includes index.

Includes index.

Introduction -- 1. Salt and adventure in his blood -- 21. First steps up the ladder -- 3. His own command -- 4. A legend is born -- 5. One step backwards -- 6. A weighty problem -- 7. The trilogy -- 8. The big red rocket -- 9. Game. set. match and glory -- 10. 'A cynosure for all young New Zealand' -- 11. Too little, too late -- 12. In the footsteps of [Phileas] Fogg -- 13. Fully fruited -- 14. Team game -- 15. Black Magic -- 16. The vexing years -- 17. Making a difference -- 18. A date with destiny -- Epilogue.

"Sir Peter Blake was an outstanding yachtsman/adventurer of his time, an international sporting celebrity who achieved status and affection to rival that of New Zealand's other favourite adventurer son, Sir Edmund Hillary. In a 30-year sailing career, [he] 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 cel;ebrity status in many countries, [he] turned away from competitive sailing in the last years of his life to pursue a passion to help protect the environment he had enjoyed so much. ..."--Jacket.