Before I Forget

At home, encircled hy books, | assumed that my writing career, So precarious, would flourish... Por close to seventy years Professor Geoffrey Blainey has uncovered and chronicled our history and the world’s. Now in his ninth decade and listed by the National Trust as a ‘Living Treasure’, Blainey turns to his own story, reflecting on the first, forty years of his life, from his humble beginnings as the son of a Methodist minister and a country school teacher, to creating his career as historian and writer.