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Author Strange, Carolyn, 1959-

Title Griffith Taylor : visionary, environmentalist, explorer / Carolyn Strange and Alison Bashford
Published Canberra : National Library of Australia, 2008

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 MELB  910.92 Taylor Str/Gtv  AVAILABLE
Description 283 pages : illustrations (some color), facsimiles, maps, portraits ; 25 cm
Summary "Griffith Taylor (1880-1963) was a world explorer, whose 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 Taylor made it his mission to enlighten the public on humankind's 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."--Provided by publisher
Notes Includes index
Bibliography Bibliography: pages 233-261
Subject Taylor, Thomas Griffith, 1880-1963.
Geographers -- Australia -- Biography.
Geographers -- Canada -- Biography.
Geography -- History.
Race.
SUBJECT Antarctic Regions -- Discovery and exploration -- British. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008114197
Genre/Form Biographies.
Author Bashford, Alison, 1963-
National Library of Australia.
ISBN 9780642276681 paperback