Blake's ambitious round-the-world trip was cancelled after the second stage of the flight came to grief in the waters of the Bay of Bengal.
In 1951 he drove his Standard Vanguard motor car on a record journey around South America from La Paz to Rio de Janeiro taking in Peru, Chile, Argentina and Paraguay along the way.
Blake had visited many of the places he now saw twenty five years before and marvelled at the great changes wrought to the country.
Now rather dated it is nevertheless a useful social history of the period – he several times notes how many ex-RAF men there were in Southern Rhodesia and their likely influence on its politics.
He lived in St Columb in the latter part of his life before moving to Mijas in Spain, with his wife Ruby.