The Wilderness Training School: Powerful Lessons in Numbers (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781503390287)

After an electrical engineering apprenticeship in the Royal Navy, Peter went on to serve on a number of ships in different parts of the world, finally being responsible for the weapons maintenance department of a frigate and lecturing to trainee officers on weapon systems. He also spent two years at the Royal Navy's training college in Fareham, Hampshire instructing on underwater weapon and defence systems. Leaving the service in 1969, Peter worked as a quality engineer for the British Aircraft Corporation on spacecraft and guided weapon systems before moving to R. A Lister (Diesels) where he became a technical author in 1984. He then worked as a contract author, mostly in the nuclear industry, writing instructional and training documentation before finally retiring in 2011. Peter gained membership of the Society of Authors in 1993 For over 20 years, Peter was a Methodist Local Preacher before becoming an official prison visitor and worshipping with his wife at the prison he visits in order to focus on supporting prisoners who wanted to change their lives around. Peter met a Jew named Derek who had become a Christian in prison. On his release to the local community, Peter was able to help him adjust to a new life of going straight. It was Derek who first asked Peter to write on scripture. After which Derek's brother Aaron, a rabbi serving in the USA, came under the influence of Peter's writing and became a Christian. Aaron asked him to write first on the book of Revelation and then on the subject of Moses' Tent of the Meeting, which he self-published early 2011. He currently has 14 books on Amazon for downloading to an eBook reader with an increasing number also being published as paperbacks. Peter has been married for 53 years (2014) with three sons and six grandchildren. His autobiographical book explaining how he came to write so many books is called "A Tale of Three Men".