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Sir Peter Blake: An Amazing Life by Alan Sefton. ‘Sir Peter Blake was an 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
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