Champion Surfer Sam Bleakley Launched His First Book

Sam Bleakley is a freelance writer and professional surfer from Sennen, West Cornwall, in the UK. He specialises in surf exploration projects with renowned photographer John Callahan, and has undertaken groundbreaking trips to the likes of Algeria, Liberia, Kenya, Oman, South Korea, Hainan, Palawan and the Maluku Islands. Surf writing has led Sam to visit close to fifty countries in a decade. His roots, however, remain in Penwith, where he lives with his family above Gwenver beach, close to Land's End.

Sam has an MA in Geography from Pembroke College, the University of Cambridge. He has been a multiple European and British Longboard surfing Champion, and a regular competes on the Oxbow World Longboard Tour. He is widely published and featured in international magazines and newspapers ranging from Resurgence to Action Asia to The Cornishman, and a regular contributor to The Surfer's Path. He has studied and taught travel writing courses and guests lecture on aspects of surfing, travel, writing and geography in further and higher education. He edited The Surfing Tribe: a history of surfing in Britain, and he currently edits Longboarding & Freeride - a new supplement to Wavelength magazine.

Sam launched his book at Waterstones in Truro on Saturday 14th August, Surfing Brilliant Corners, which details a decade of extreme global surf travel, illustrated by John Callahan. Surfing, jazz, geography, ecology and cultural studies mix as he journied to Mauritania, locked in political strife, where landmines litter access to some of the best waves on the planet; and Haiti, which captured his heart and made it race as if falling in love.

Visit Sam's Website

Read reviews of Surfing Brilliant Corners

Above: Image of Sam by John Callhan and below: Sam at The Oxbow World Tour in San Clemente

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