Author(s): Martin Hawes (Photographer); Bob Brown (Foreword by)

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Unexplored is an art-quality coffee-table book featuring a foreword by Bob Brown and photographs of Tasmania's wild places by landscape photographer and author Martin Hawes. The book includes short passages of text in which Hawes relates experiences and impressions from his 50 years of bushwalking in Tasmania. The central theme of Unexplored is the apparent paradox between the wild and sublime aspects of wilderness, exemplified in Tasmania by the breathtaking beauty of its landscapes and the ferocity of the scrub that has kept parts of the island unexplored for the past 250 years. Hawes suggests that the landscape is alive, and that our relationship with the wild Earth is also unexplored territory.