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Australian History

The Art of Time Travel: Historians and their craft by Tom Griffiths

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August 2016, no. 383

The Art of Time Travel: Historians and their craft by Tom Griffiths

Black Inc., $34.99 pb, 376 pp, 9781863958561

Australian History

The Art of Time Travel: Historians and their craft by Tom Griffiths

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August 2016, no. 383

For many writers, the contour and direction of a lifetime's work exists in a shadow-land. The relationship between one book and the next, and the lasting significance of an author's oeuvre remain partly obscure until the culture in which it was produced becomes 'history'. Even then, writers are rarely the best and most willing interpreters of their own work.

Mark McKenna

Mark McKenna is an Australian Research Council Research Fellow in History at the University of Sydney. His most recent book is Return to Uluru, published by Black Inc. McKenna's work An Eye for Eternity: The Life of Manning Clark (Miegunyah Press, 2011) won the 2012 Prime Minister’s Prize for Non-Fiction.

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Comments (2)

  • A generous, insightful, enthusiastic and deeply respectful review of one fine historian's work by another equally fine scholar. What a pleasure to read.
    Posted by Bernadette Brennan
    16 August 2016
  • Great review! Sounds like a fascinating book.
    Posted by Shale Preston
    07 August 2016

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