Griffith Taylor

Visionary, Environmentalist, Explorer

Carolyn Strange, Alison Bashford

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University of Toronto Press
03 November 2008

Biography: general; History of the Americas; Geographical discovery & exploration

Thomas Griffith Taylor (1880-1963) was a geographer, anthropologist, and world explorer. His travels took him from Captain Scott's final expedition in Antarctica to every continent on earth, in a professional life that stretched from the Boer War to the Cold War. Taylor's research ranged from microscopic analysis of fossils to the ""races of man,"" the geographic basis of global politics, while his work as a professor led him from his Cambridge education to the Universities of Chicago and Sydney, as well as Harold A. Innis' recently-founded geography department in the University of Toronto.

As a scientific secularist, Taylor made it his lifelong mission to enlighten the public on humankind's relation to the environment and was an early environmentalist. His progressive views on interracial marriage, as well as his criticisms of social Darwinist doctrines, anti-Semitism, and twentieth-century nationalism caused him to be constantly embroiled in controversy. Often dismissed by his contemporary political and intellectual opponents, many subsequent scientists and thinkers have come to regard his life as prophetic. This timely, beautifully produced, and copiously illustrated biography recounts and analyses the fascinating life of a remarkably contemporary man.

By: Carolyn Strange, Alison Bashford
Imprint: University of Toronto Press
Country of Publication: Canada
Dimensions: Height: 250mm, Width: 177mm, Spine: 20mm
Weight: 860g
ISBN: 9780802096630
ISBN 10: 0802096638
Pages: 287
Publication Date: 03 November 2008
Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Primary , Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Carolyn Strange is a professor in the School of History at the Australian National University. Allison Bashford is an associate professor in the Department of History at the University of Sydney.