Media: hardcover with dustjacket - 324 pages 
Author: C. Kerr
Year: 1983
Publiosher: Macmillan

Good condition, inscribed on the half title page by Kenneth Price (Sir Archibald's son)

Archie, as he was known to his many friends in Australia and overseas, was better known to the public at large as Sir Archibald Grenfell Price.

Born in 1892 of pioneer stock, Archie was educated at St Peter’s College and Oxford University. After a few years of schoolmastering he became the first and longest-serving (1925-57) Master of St Mark’s College, the first residential college attached to the University of Adelaide.

In the 1930s Archie was a member of the Emergency Committee in Adelaide. In 1941-3 he was a Member of Federal Parliament. He travelled extensively, following his interests as a geographer and historian. He wrote many books and articles on life in the tropics, on Australia, and on the Pacific.

Archie gave many years of public service in educational and library circles, and in his later years he was Foundation Chairman of the National Library Council and Chairman of the Advisory Body to the Commonwealth Literary Fund.

As schoolmaster, as Master of St Mark’s, and in his wide range of public activities and writings, Archie Price touched many lives. All who knew him were warmed by ‘his verve, his wit, his gallantry of spirit, the gaiety and glow of his friendship’. He was loved and respected for himself and for his integrity.

Colin Kerr has succeeded in conveying the virtues and humanity of Archie. But Archie is more than a personal biography, it is a mirror of recent times. As such it is a notable contribution to Australia’s historiography.

Contents
Foreword by Professor Geoffrey Blainey
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Merry in Heart
1 Guernsey Galaxy
2 Home of Happiness
3 Oxford and Sherborne
4 Birth of a Geographer
5 Towards St Mark’s
6 Spernit Virtus Humum
7 Master and Writer
8 Meeting an Emergency
9 Travelling Fellow
10 Survival in the Sun
11 Oxford Revisited
12 Desert Search — and Other Matters
13 The Battle of the Books
14 Pressed into Politics
15 Canberra in Wartime
16 American Kinship
17 ‘Well, why don’t we?’
18 Uncle Archie
19 Largesse for Literature
20 The Dark Side of the Moon
21 Happier Times
22 Family Man
23 From Antarctica to Alaska
24 Not Without Price
25 ‘One of the Great’
26 Golden Opinions
27 Preparation
Index