Before I Forget
$25.64
- Paperback
352 pages
- Release Date
18 August 2020
Summary
Before I Forget is the long-awaited memoir from Professor Geoffrey Blainey - Australia’s most significant and popular historian - that tells the story of the first forty years of his life, from his childhood to his career as historian and writer.
“At home, encircled by books, I assumed that my writing career, so precarious, would flourish…”
For close to seventy years Professor Geoffrey Blainey has uncovered and chronicled our history. Now in his ninth decade and listed by the …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781760899103 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1760899100 |
| Author: | Geoffrey Blainey |
| Publisher: | Penguin Random House Australia |
| Imprint: | Penguin Random House Australia |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 352 |
| Release Date: | 18 August 2020 |
| Weight: | 276g |
| Dimensions: | 196mm x 130mm x 24mm |
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About The Author
Geoffrey Blainey
Professor Geoffrey Blainey is one of Australia’s most prolific and popular historians. He has written more than forty books, including The Tyranny of Distance, Triumph of the Nomads, A Shorter History of Australia, The Rush That Never Ended, and the international bestseller A Short History of the World, which was published in a score of lands as far apart as Brazil, India, Spain and China. He has served the federal government as chairman of the Commonwealth Literary Fund, the Australia Council for the Arts, the National Council for the Centenary of Federation, and the Australia-China Council. At the United Nations in New York, in 1988, Professor Blainey received the celebrated Britannica Prize ‘for exceptional excellence in the dissemination of knowledge for the benefit of mankind’. A recipient of Australia’s highest honour, Companion in the Order of Australia (AC), he has been officially listed for two decades by the National Trust as a ‘National Living Treasure’. He is married to the well-known biographer Ann Blainey.
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