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Tony Taylor Tony Taylor i(A144481 works by)
Born: Established: 15 Dec 1928 ; Died: Ceased: 2015
Gender: Male
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Sydneysider Tony Taylor 'studied paleontology and petrology in London, while also working as a scientific officer at the Natural History Museum. He taught at universities in the UK and Australia before helping to set up environmental policy in British Columbia.'

Source: Text Publishing website, http://textpublishing.com.au/
Sighted: 13/12/2011

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y separately published work icon Fishing the River of Time Melbourne : Text Publishing , 2012 Z1832208 2012 single work prose

'At age eighty, Tony Taylor journeys from Sydney to British Columbia to fish the Cowichan River with his eight-year-old grandson, Ned. This trip is an opportunity for Tony to return to a landscape that has had a profound effect on his life and his way of thinking, and to share this place with his grandson.

'As Tony teaches Ned the patient art of fly-fishing, a lifetime of memories, thoughts and stories unspool in peaceful reflections by the water's edge.

'Fishing the River of Time is an elegant meditation on nature, life and family, written with warmth and wisdom. It inspires self-reflection and an appreciation of the natural world and the fundamentals of our human experience. It is destined to become a classic work of simple living after Henry David Thoreau's Walden.' (From the publisher's website.)
2012 shortlisted The Age Book of the Year Award — Non-Fiction Prize
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