Old Sea Dogs of Tasmania Book 1 is a number #1 best selling title with over 6000 books sold Australia wide. Offered now for the first time to international audiences, this joyful collection of tall tales and stunning black and white portrait and seascape photographs is set deep in the southern seas, where the Roaring Forties batter Australia's smallest state - Tasmania. Meet tough salt encrusted sailors, fishermen and shipwrights, who have experienced high adventures across all the worlds oceans - on vessels large and small. In Book 1 you will round Cape Horn on a fully rigged Windjammer, compete in the British Three Peaks Race, craft from Huon Pine the stunning 8 meter class yacht Varg, live the life of a river rat, step in the footprints of Joshua Slocum, fish the seas and sounds of New Zealand, re-enact the 1800 voayage of Bass and Flinders and visit Hells Gates amongst other adventures.
Both Old Sea Dogs of Tasmania books, by resident author and photographer Andrew Wilson, are not only homages in words and images to his island home, they are also love letters to the sea and those that cast away their lines and set forth seeking adventure and fortune across the globe.
Coffee table books for anyone who wishes to be swept away, and a great gift for those hard to buy for fathers and sons!
"The internal cohesion in the work is provided by sometimes raw and powerful, sometimes ethereal and lonely black and white photographs. They are superb. Collectively, the warriors, seascapes, famous and infamous maritime locations, and the carefully chosen text create a nostalgic mood of awe and respect. This is a wonderful book to peruse, reflect and enjoy it's precious moments of passion and pride."
Warren Brewer, Journalist for The Read, Mercury Newspaper
Wilson, Andrew Bruce: - "Andrew's journey as a self-published author has resulted in the publication of four stunning coffee table books full of tall tales, high adventures and beautiful seascapes. For seven years Andrew Wilson travelled the coastlines, islands, ports, anchorages and boat sheds of Tasmania. His objective, to photograph and document the fascinating tales of our oldest living mariners - the Old Sea Dogs of Tasmania.Old Sea Dogs of Tasmania - Book One is a number #1 best selling title in Tasmania and has gone on to sell over 5500 copies since its release in 2013. Book two, also a best seller of over 3000 features the coastlines of King Island, Flinders Island and Port Davey, remote areas of the world full of stunning seascapes and rich in maritime adventures. Both books are beautifully presented in hard cover. Following on from the success of these two titles Andrew release Coast Tasmania, a 300 page illustrated journey of Tasmania's rugged roaring forties coastlines. His most recent release is Blue Water Classics: Portraits of the Sydney Hobart Yacht Race, an epic four year study and 520 page illustrated adventure documenting the legends, competitors, super-maxi owners, officials and search and rescue personnel that risk their lives every year to compete in the worlds toughest ocean race, the Blue Water Classic."
