Tim Baker (Author) Tim Baker is the bestselling author of Bustin' Down the Door, High Surf, Occy, Surf for Your Life (with Mick Fanning), Surfari and Century of Surf. He is a former editor of Tracks and Surfing Life magazines. He has twice won the Surfing Australia Hall of Fame Culture Award and been nominated for the CUB Australian Sports Writing Awards. His work has appeared in Rolling Stone, the Sydney Morning Herald, the Australian Financial Review, the Bulletin, Inside Sport, Playboy, GQ, the Surfers Journal and Qantas: The Australian Way, as well as surfing magazines around the world. Jesse Lawrence (Reader) Jesse Lawrence grew up in Perth, second eldest of five kids, and spent his childhood holidaying up and down the south-west coast of Australia, either at the beach, rock-climbing or skiing behind the family boat. After gaining degrees in Sound Engineering and Broadcasting at university, he started his career radio-announcing and television presenting. He is now based in Sydney, signed with RMK Management and works as an actor and musician.
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Tim Baker was living the dream. A best-selling and award-winning surf writer with a beautiful family, a lifetime of exotic travel and a home walking distance to quality waves. That all changed on July 7, 2015, when he was diagnosed, out of the blue, wit... SEE MORE