CAPE HORN BIRTHDAY: Record-Breaking Solo Non-Stop Circumnavigation – Soft Cover

Peter Freeman grew up in Noosa Heads, on the Sunshine Coast of Queensland, Australia. In his youth, he was an avid surfer and sailor. Peter crewed on the sloop Sunshine from Hobart, Tasmania across the Tasman Sea to Opua in the Bay of Islands, New Zealand. He then spent five years living in Dunedin, New Zealand, where he and his wife built the thirty-two-foot sloop Laiviņa. The couple first sailed Laiviņa to Australia where Peter designed and built a self-steering system, and in 1982, sailed to Victoria, British Columbia, Canada. Two years later, Peter left Victoria for his record-breaking non-stop solo sailing circumnavigation.

Peter became involved in Masters Athletics, competing in sprint and middle distance races in Canada, South Africa, Australia, Puerto Rico, Italy, and the USA. In 2003, at the age of fifty-one, Peter was ranked 10th in the world for his time of 55.10 seconds in the 400 metre sprint. Peter has bicycled twice across Canada and at the age of sixty-one, he bicycled unsupported 15,400 kilometres around the perimeter of Australia in 79 days.

Peter now lives on Salt Spring Island in British Columbia, Canada where he writes novels, poetry, short stories, children's books, and stage and screenplays. Peter is in the process of completing the story of his Australian cycling adventure, and he is also working on a fictional novel of adventure. Peter's work has been published in magazines and newspapers. Cape Horn Birthday will be his first published book.