Sam Bleakley

Sam Bleakley is a travel writer, author, academic, surfer and presenter from Gwenver beach, Sennen, Cornwall, UK. Sam is Senior Lecturer and Course Coordinator in Cultural Tourism Management at Falmouth University. His first book, Surfing Brilliant Corners details a decade of extreme global surf travel and research in geography and cultural tourism, illustrated by renowned photographer John Callahan. The sequel, Surfing Tropical Beats is the first surf travel book translated into Mandarin Chinese. Sam has an MA in Geography from the University of Cambridge, is researching a part-time PhD in Travel Writing with Falmouth University, and has been a multiple British and European Longboard Surfing Champion. Sam specialises in surf exploration projects with the surfEXPLORE team. He has undertaken trips to Haiti, Mauritania, Western Sahara, Algeria, Liberia, Kenya, Oman, South Korea, Hainan, Palawan and the Maluku Islands, and published illustrated articles on these projects in over seventy publications worldwide, and primarily with The Surfers Path magazine.