Art of Time Travel: Historians and Their Craft

Griffiths, Tom
Art of Time Travel: Historians and Their Craft

Art of Time Travel: Historians and Their Craft

Griffiths, Tom

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Writing good history is a high-wire act of balance and grace. Historians scour their own societies for vestiges of past worlds, for cracks and fissures in the pavement of the present, and for the shimmers and hauntings of history in everyday action.

In The Art of Time Travel, eminent historian and award-winning author Tom Griffiths explores the craft of discipline and imagination that is history. Through portraits of fifteen historians at work, including Inga Clendinnen, Judith Wright, Geoffrey Blainey and Henry Reynolds, he observes how a body of work is constructed out of a life-long dialogue between past evidence and present experience.

Riveting, beautiful and elegantly written, this landmark book conjures fresh insights into the history of Australia and revitalises our sense of the historian's craft - what Tom Griffiths calls 'the art of time travel'.

Author:   Griffiths, Tom
Publisher:   Black Inc.
ISBN:  

9781863958561


Pages:   336
Publication Date:   27 June 2016
Bind Format:   Paperback
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Writing good history is a high-wire act of balance and grace. Historians scour their own societies for vestiges of past worlds, for cracks and fissures in the pavement of the present, and for the shimmers and hauntings of history in everyday action.

In The Art of Time Travel, eminent historian and award-winning author Tom Griffiths explores the craft of discipline and imagination that is history. Through portraits of fifteen historians at work, including Inga Clendinnen, Judith Wright, Geoffrey Blainey and Henry Reynolds, he observes how a body of work is constructed out of a life-long dialogue between past evidence and present experience.

Riveting, beautiful and elegantly written, this landmark book conjures fresh insights into the history of Australia and revitalises our sense of the historian's craft - what Tom Griffiths calls 'the art of time travel'.

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Author:   Griffiths, Tom
Publisher:   Black Inc.
ISBN:  

9781863958561


Pages:   336
Publication Date:   27 June 2016
Bind Format:   Paperback
Availability:  
This item is in stock and will be dispatched immediately.
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