Cultural historian, David Walker, reflects on his own relation to the past, and that of his family over five generations from the settlement of his great-great grandparents in South Australia in the 1850s. Walker recreates his forebears, an unassuming family of middle-class South Australians – the Walkers, McLarens and Bournes who were enterprising, self-sufficient, tolerant, curious and community minded.Written after the collapse of his eyesight due to macular degeneration. Biography pp 322 illusts #1219