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An adventurous life / Valerie Taylor with Ben McKelvey.

An adventurous life / Valerie Taylor with Ben McKelvey.
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4 Jun 2020 008118855 B/TAYL
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Field name Details
ISBN 9780733641725
Shelf Location B/TAYL
Author Taylor, Valerie, 1935-
Title An adventurous life / Valerie Taylor with Ben McKelvey.
Publication Details Sydney NSW : Hachette Australia, 2019.
Format 327 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : chiefly colour illiustrations, colour plates ; 24 cm.
Notes Illustration on end papers.
Prologue : a life in the ocean -- The beginning -- Love and other adventures -- Escaping a bad choice -- Movietone sharks and Ron Taylor Productions -- Discovering paradise -- An unusual office -- Blue water, white death -- Jaws -- Inner space -- Fighting for the ocean -- A woman in chain mail -- The little red ship -- Memento mori -- The sharks that saved a reef -- Tidal pull -- Mother of all life -- Epilogue : mother of all life.
At 83 years old, Valerie Taylor has lived a big, bold adventurous life. Born in Australia, Valerie spent a great deal of her childhood in New Zealand. A talented artist, she dropped out of school when she contracted polio and was saved by Sister Elizabeth Kenny's treatment plan; it was two years before she could walk unaided. When Valerie was fifteen, she found work as an animator and moved back to Australia with her family. All the while she thrived on being close to the ocean, and was a keen spearfisher. In the 1950s, she met Ron Taylor and then her real adventures started. Together they sailed all over the world, photographing and filming their travels for magazines, tv and movies, and making many documentaries. Valerie and Ron became interested in conservation, and focused on sharks in particular. They did all the shark work on Jaws, and James Cameron decided he wanted to become a filmmaker because of Valerie and her husband.
Subject Taylor, Valerie, -- 1935-
Taylor, Ron, -- 1934-2012
Biography: general
Underwater photography
Cinematographers -- Australia -- Biography
Women environmentalists -- Australia -- Biography
Photographers -- Australia -- Biography
Independent filmmakers -- Australia
Added Author Mckelvey, Ben
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