Griffith Taylor
Subtitle: visionary environmentalist explorer
By: Carolyn Strange ; Alison Bashford.
Contributors: Bashford, Alison, 1963-; National Library of Australia.
Publisher: National Library of Australia
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Canberra
Language: eng
Number of pages: 283
ISBN-13: 9780642276681
Subjects: Taylor, Thomas Griffith, -- 1880-1963; Geographers -- Australia -- Biography; Geographers -- Canada -- Biography; Geography -- History; Race; Antarctica -- Discovery and exploration -- British
Genres: Biography.
Description: "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 bibliographical references (p. 233-261) and index.