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.