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Books by Alasdair McGregor. Grand Obsessions: The Life and Work of Walter Burley Griffin and Marion Mahony Griffin. by Alasdair McGregor.

Award-winning author Alasdair McGregor – in the first biography of Greenway since 1953 – scrutinises the life and work of a man beset by contradictions and demons.

Talented, well trained and confident in his own abilities and worth, Australia's first government architect was also hot-headed and tactless. Sentenced to death for forgery, then granted a last-minute reprieve, Francis Greenway was transported to New South Wales in 1814. Award-winning author Alasdair McGregor – in the first biography of Greenway since 1953 – scrutinises the life and work of a man beset by contradictions and demons. He profiles Greenway's landmark buildings, his meteoric rise and his complex and fraught relationship with Governor Macquarie, along with his thwarted ambitions and self-destruction.

by Alasdair McGregor. Almost a century later, Griffin's design - but most of all its implementation - is still hotly debated.

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Alasdair McGregor's thorough, scholarly, yet eminently readable biography. is a hugely valuable addition to the literature of both Antarctic exploration and photographic history. McGregor covers all of ground with impressive historical breadth and depth of knowledge and a marked understanding of Hurley's personality and psyche. Judges report, National Biography Award 2011.

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His other books include Grand Obsessions: The life and work of Walter Burley Griffin and Marion Mahony Griffin, winner of the 2011 National Biography Award

His other books include Grand Obsessions: The life and work of Walter Burley Griffin and Marion Mahony Griffin, winner of the 2011 National Biography Award. In 1999, Alasdair staged Mawson’s Antarctica: A view from the huts, a major exhibition of his Antarctic paintings and photographs in aid of the Mawson’s Huts Foundation.