Andy Larson was born in Alberta Canada and grew up on a farm. His first job after leaving school was as a railroad morse code telegrapher. He then became a commercial writer in Canadian radio and television, before leaving Canada in 1962. Signing on as a deckhand on a Norwegian freighter, he sailed to Africa, signing off in Durban, where he worked for a large department store as advertising manager. With a Canadian friend, he bought a jeep and drove up through central Africa, into the Congo, during the Katangan rebellion, stopping for a year in Nairobi, where he continued to write, first as a newspaper reporter, then in an advertising agency. The agency transferred him to Hong Kong, where he married, and then sent him to Malaysia as manager. He left to start a computer company in 1975, eventually moving to Australia in 1987 where he became a communication networks designer manager. His last venture was to build a television studio and set up an educational television network to assist professionals in architecture, accounting and the law to continue their professional education. In 2008, he went walk-about, and began writing. After publishing three books, he bought an ocean-going sailboat in Vancouver, and has since sailed alone down the Pacific coast to Mexico, and then across the Pacific to Australia. He has just finished his 7th book.