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Griffith Taylor : visionary environmentalist explorer / Carolyn Strange ; Alison Bashford
Bib ID 4306346
Format BookBook
Author
Strange, Carolyn, 1959-
 
Description Canberra : National Library of Australia, 2008. 
283 p. : ill., ports. ; 25 cm. 
ISBN 9780642276681 (pbk.) : 
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: p. 233-261.

Subjects Taylor, Thomas Griffith, - 1880-1963.  |  Geographers - Australia - Biography.  |  Geographers - Canada - Biography.  |  Geography - History.  |  Race.  |  Antarctica - Discovery and exploration - British.
Other Authors Bashford, Alison, 1963-  |  National Library of Australia
Available From National Library of Australia, Canberra ACT 2600 
Details Collect From
NL 910.92 T241S
Copy: N pbk
Main Reading Room (Australian Collection)
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N 910.92 T241S
Copy: N pbk
Main Reading Room (Australian Collection)
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