Australia
National Library of Australia
2008
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Written by Canberra based Carolyn Strange and Sydney based Alison Bashford, this book is a fasdcinating account of a fascinating man's life. Well written, well worth the read, and you may even read it several times! Thomas Griffith Taylor (1880-1963) was a geographer, anthropologist and world explorer. His travels took him from Captain Scotts final expedition in Antarctica to every continent on earth, in a life that stretched from the Boer War to the Cold War. An Englishman by birth, Taylor spent much of his life in Australia, Canada and the United States where he established geography departments at the University of Sydney and the University of Toronto and also taught at the University of Chicago. As a scientific secularist, he made it his life-long mission to enlighten the public on humankind's relation to the environment. Today's preoccupations with climate change, the ascendancy of Asian nations, and the renewed threat of nuclear war, were all addressed by Grif Taylor. Often dismissed by his contemporary political and intellectual opponents as a pariah, many subsequent scientists and environmental advocates have come to regard him as something of a prophet. This timely biography by authors Carolyn Strange and Alison Bashford is a highly illustrated account and analysis of Griffith Taylor's remarkable life. It explores what drove this "long, lean, lanky" man to such extremes: geographically, intellectually and politically. (Pages:360) [When referring to this item please quote stockid 185436]
ISBN: 0642276684
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