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.
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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