Book Review: Philip Blake's "S**t, That Was Close! A Life in Near Misses"

 

Author Philip Blake

I used to think myself lucky to have met Philip Blake and indeed I was.  However, having read his autobiography, S**t, That Was Close!  A Life in Near Misses, I now know that it was Phil who was lucky to have survived long enough to have met anyone at all, let alone to have led the life of adventures that he has!

Take a ride, quite literally, with Phil through his seemingly death-wish infancy and youth, to his motorcycling, rock climbing and ongoing motor-racing careers as he cheats a premature demise and manages not to take any of his co-adventurers out with him.  From his birthplace in Ireland to Tasmania, Australia, this is one hairy tale told with the typical wit and charm that those who know Phil have come to enjoy so much.

Published by Forty South, S**t, That Was Close!  A Life in Near Misses, is available at any good bookshop or newsagent throughout Tasmania, at Shannon's Insurance in Murray Street, Hobart, or, if you're really, really lucky, from Phil himself at 2022's instalment of the iconic Targa Tasmania tarmac rally.  You won't regret the purchase and he might even sign it for you!  



Alastair Watson

uppermiddlepetrolhead.blogspot.com.au.



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