Title Not dark yet : a personal history / David Walker

Published Artarmon, N.S.W. : Giramondo Publishing, 2011 Artarmon, New South Wales : Giramondo, 2011 ©2011

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Description 322 pages : black and white illustrations, facsimiles, maps, portraits ; 24 cm Contents Not dark yet -- The lost garden -- A burra puzzle -- The worshipful master -- The matriarch -- A quiet man -- Beautiful strength -- Peeling cormlets -- Laurie and I -- The Laha massacres -- Wizard fires -- The cheerful rat -- A steady profession -- The virile vanguard -- Our Arkley home -- World travellers -- The groves of academe -- Underwater sailors Summary Spurred on by his encroaching blindness, prominent historian David Walker's Not Dark Yet is a frank, witty and innovative memoir that connects the small, seemingly inconsequential events of daily life to larger historical themes of family, war, patriotism, racial identity, religious belief, knowledge of the world and death Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 312-319) Subject Walker, David (David Robert), 1945- Walker, David (David Robert), 1945- -- Family. Walker, David, 1945- Australia. Australian Army -- History. Historians -- Australia -- South Australia -- Biography. Retinal degeneration -- Patients -- Biography. Retinal degeneration. Social historians -- Australia -- South Australia -- Biography. SUBJECT Australia -- History -- 20th century. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85009594 Australia http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79021326 -- History, Military. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh00005863 South Australia http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79100617 -- History http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh99005024 -- Bibliography. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh99001362 South Australia http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79100617 -- History. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh99005024 Genre/Form Autobiographies. Bibliographies. ISBN 1920882650 (paperback) 9781920882655 (paperback)

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