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Philip Blake Philip Blake i(A96418 works by) (a.k.a. Philip Gerard Blake)
Born: Established: 1949 ;
Gender: Male
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1 y separately published work icon Shit That Was Close! : A Life in near Misses Philip Blake , Lindisfarne : Forty South Publishing , 2022 24464622 2022 single work autobiography

'Terrorists, bicycles, electricity, logging machinery, motor-bikes, rally cars, gravity and wild animals are just a few of the players in a series of little dramas that have given the author opportunities to meet his Maker – which, at the time of publication, he has yet to do.

'Warning ... You have had moments of your own when you might equally well have gasped ‘Shit, that was close!’ This book will get you thinking about them – and will remind you that even if you didn’t utter the magic words, maybe you should have.

(Just don’t write a competing book right away.)' (Publication summary)
1 'God - This Is an Awful Place' Philip Blake , 2006 single work essay
— Appears in: Island , Winter no. 105 2006; (p. 23-27) Blake 'talked to half a dozen people and read the writings of a dozen more' who had visited Antarctica. In this essay he gives his impressions of those people's experiences.
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