John Robert Victor Prescott FASSA

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 is an Australian academic, author, geographer and Professor Emeritus at the University of Melbourne

University of Melbourne

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Early life

Prescott earned his BSc and MA degrees at the University of Durham in the United Kingdom. The University of London

University of London

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 awarded his doctorate degree.

Career

Prescott was a professor in the Department of Geography at the University of Melbourne until his retirement in 1996.

Selected works

In a statistical overview derived from writings by and about John Prescott, OCLC

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encompasses roughly 10 works in 10 publications in 3 languages and 30 library holdings.

• The Geography of Frontiers and Boundaries (1967)
• Our Fragmented World: an Introduction to Political Geography (1975), with William G East
• Einführung in die politische Geographie (1975)
• The Maritime Political Boundaries of the World (1985)
• Political Frontiers and Boundaries (1987)
• Aboriginal Frontiers and Boundaries in Australia (1992)
• Limits of National Claims in the South China Sea (1999)
• International Frontiers and Boundaries (2008)