Tom Griffiths is the W K Hancock Professor of History at the Australian National University and has written a history of Antarctica entitled Slicing the Silence: Voyaging to Antarctica. In January this year he joined the centennial voyage to Mawson's huts in Antarctica. Tom's books and essays have won prizes in literature, history, science, politics and journalism, most recently the Prime Minister's Prize for Australian History in 2008 and the 2009 Alfred Deakin Prize for an Essay Advancing Public Debate. His other books include Hunters and Collectors: The Antiquarian Imagination in Australia and Forests of Ash: An Environmental History.
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Tom Griffiths is the W K Hancock Professor of History at the Australian National University and has written a history of Antarctica entitled Slicing the Silence: Voyaging to Antarctica....