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T.W. Edgeworth David
David F. Branagan
其他書名
A Life : Geologist, Adventurer, Soldier and 'Knight in the Old Brown Hat'
出版National Library of Australia, 2005
主題Biography & Autobiography / GeneralScience / Earth Sciences / Geology
ISBN06421079129780642107916
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=tx29vLNyVVkC&hl=&source=gbs_api
註釋This comprehensive biography evokes the life and achievements of Edgeworth David (1858-1934): celebrated geologist, Antarctic pioneer (participant in the first party to reach the vicinity of the South Magnetic Pole, and champion of Scott's, Shackleton's and Mawson's later expeditions), co-founder of the Australian Tunnelling Corps in World War I, tireless campaigner for Australian and international science, inveterate congress organiser, mesmerising lecturer, and--with his formidable wife Cara--prominent Sydney social identity in the early decades of the twentieth century. This intensively researched work by Dr David Branagan, featuring a striking array of photographs, provides a timely reappraisal of this great and, today, strangely neglected Australian.