Dr Martin Thomas, ARC Future Fellow at ANU's School of History has won the $25,000 National Biography Award for 2012, Australia's richest prize for biographical writing and memoir.
The Many Worlds of R. H. Mathews: In Search of an Australian Anthropologist tells the story of surveyor and self-taught anthropologist R. H. Mathews (1841-1918) who became one of Australia's most significant early researchers of Aboriginal languages, culture and history.
