Author: Strange, Carolyn; Bashford, Alison.
Title: Griffith Taylor: Visionary, Environmentalist, Explorer.
Description: Canberra National Library of Australia, 2008. 1st ed. Paperback large octavo, very good condition, black & white & sepia (brown-tinted) text-photos, frontispiece, few single-colour illustrations, minor edgewear, minor scuffing front cover (sticker removal). Heavy, and extra postage may be requested to destinations outside Australia. 283 pp. A biography of the great Australian academic (University of Sydney). Thomas Griffith Taylor (1880 - 1963) was a geographer, anthropologist and world explorer. Explains what drove this 'long, lean, lanky' man to such extremes: geographically, intellectually and politically. His travels took him from Captain Scott's final expedition in Antarctica to every continent on earth. In a life that stretched from the Boer War to the Cold War, he sought to enlighten the public on the human relation to the environment. As a geographer whose work crossed into anthropology, he courted controversy and craved recognition. Today's preoccupations with climate change, the ascendancy of Asian nations, and the renewed threat of nuclear war, were all addressed by Taylor generations earlier. ISBN: 9780642276681

Keywords: australian biography, earth sciences, geography, geographers, anthropology, anthropologists, environment, environmentalists, education, universities, exploration, explorers, new south wales (nsw), sydney, antarctica, antarctic 9780642276681


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