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Alasdair McGregor (Author)

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Alasdair McGregor

Painter, photographer and one-time architect, Alasdair McGregor is the author of The Kimberley: Horizons of Stone, Australia's Wild Islands (both with Quentin Chester), Mawson's Huts: An Antarctic Expedition Journal, Frank Hurley: A Photographer's Life and Grand Obsessions: The Life and Work of Walter Burley Griffin and Marion Mahony Griffin. He was artist and photographer for three AAP Mawson's Huts Foundation expeditions to Antarctica, and in 2000 was curator (for the Australian High Commission to Canada) of ' . . . that sweep of splendour': A Century of Australians in Antactica, a travelling exhibition featuring the photography of Frank Hurley. Alasdair McGregor lives in Sydney.

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Book Cover: Antarctica: that sweep of savage splendour
Antarctica: that sweep of savage splendour
By Alasdair McGregor
In this wide-ranging collection, Alasdair McGregor draws on the best factual and fictional accounts of human activity on the ice to paint a vivid picture of a 'land of unsurpassed desolation'.
In this wide-ranging collection, Alasdair McGregor draws on the best factual and fictional accounts of human activity on the ice to paint a vivid picture of a 'land of unsurpassed desolation'.
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Published: 28/06/2011
Format: Digital
ISBN: 9781742533780
Book Cover: Antarctica: that sweep of savage splendour
Antarctica: that sweep of savage splendour
By Alasdair McGregor
In this wide-ranging collection, Alasdair McGregor draws on the best factual and fictional accounts of human activity on the ice to paint a vivid picture of a 'land of unsurpassed desolation'.
In this wide-ranging collection, Alasdair McGregor draws on the best factual and fictional accounts of human activity on the ice to paint a vivid picture of a 'land of unsurpassed desolation'.
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Published: 27/06/2011
Format: Hardback
ISBN: 9780670074426
RRP: $39.95
Book Cover: Frank Hurley: A Photographer's Life
Frank Hurley: A Photographer's Life
By Alasdair McGregor

'McGregor brings a refined and educated sensibility to his examination of an important Australian life: he does his work with respect and admiration, but never with the gush of hero-worship.'
John Thompson, Australian Book Review


'McGregor brings a refined and educated sensibility to his examination of an important Australian life: he does his work with respect and admiration, but never with the gush of hero-worship.'
John Thompson...

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Published: 26/10/2009
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9780670073511
RRP: $49.95
Book Cover: Grand Obsessions: The Life and Work of Walter Burley Griffin and Marion Mahony Griffin
Grand Obsessions: The Life and Work of Walter Burley Griffin and Marion Mahony Griffin
By Alasdair McGregor

On 23 May 1912, American Walter Burley Griffin was announced to the world as the winner of the international design competition for the new Australian capital to be built on a sheep paddock they called Canberra. Almost a century later, Griffin's design - but most of all its implementation - is still hotly debated. Who was this man and what was his vision? How did he come to Canberra, what happened...

On 23 May 1912, American Walter Burley Griffin was announced to the world as the winner of the international design competition for the new Australian capital to be built on a sheep paddock they called...

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Published: 28/09/2009
Format: Hardback
ISBN: 9781920989385
RRP: $69.95
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21 May 2012
2012 Australian Book Industry Awards (ABIAs) - winners

The Australian Book Industry Awards were held in Sydney on Friday night. It was a great night for Penguin with our books taking the top honors in four book categories including the prestigious Book of the Year. Congratulations also to Peg McColl, Kate McCormack and the rights team who won the International (Rights) Award for the second year running for Paul French's book Midnight in Peking. United Book Distributors were again named Distributor of the Year.

Illustrated Book of the Year

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