C. A. M. (Charles Austin Mendell) Taber

Charles Austin Mendell Taber (1824–1911), often published as C. A. M. Taber, wrote a small group of science-minded books in Boston in the 1890s and early 1900s. Surviving editions of The Cause of Warm and Frigid Periods (1894), The Coming Ice Age (1896), and The Cause of Geologic Periods (1907) show a writer deeply interested in climate history, glaciers, and the forces shaping the planet.

In the preface to The Coming Ice Age, Taber explained that the book extended ideas from his earlier work and that he had continued refining them after receiving encouraging attention from readers interested in geology and physical geography. He also wrote that age and failing health limited how fully he could present his ideas, which gives his later work a personal, reflective tone alongside its scientific arguments.

Reliable biographical details about his life beyond his publications are limited in the sources I could confirm here. What does come through clearly is his determination to tackle sweeping natural questions on his own terms, leaving behind works that reflect the energy of 19th-century popular science and independent scholarship.