In this landmark publication, eminent historian and award-winning writer Tom Griffiths explores the craft of self-discipline and mind's eye that's history.

Through pix of fourteen historians, together with Inga Clendinnen, Judith Wright, Geoffrey Blainey and Henry Reynolds, he strains how a physique of labor is shaped out of a life-long discussion among earlier facts and current event. With meticulous study and gleaming prose, he indicates how our figuring out of the prior has developed, and what this altering historical past finds approximately us.

Passionate and stylish, The artwork of Time Travel conjures clean insights into the background of Australia and renews our feel of the historian’s craft.

Winner, 2017 Ernest Scott Prize. Shortlisted, 2017 NSW Premier's Literary Awards and the 2017 Colin Roderick Award

‘If the earlier is a international nation, Tom Griffiths makes the best vacationing spouse. Erudite yet sincere. beneficiant but discerning. hot, perceptive and not anything if no longer dependent. allow him be your eyes and ears on our shared historical past. such a lot of all, stick to his heart.’ —Clare Wright, writer, historian and winner of the Stella Prize

‘The paintings of Time Travel can be in each tuition and library. i'd layout a senior historical past path out of it. in reality, I’d inform all scholars, regardless of their disciplines, that in the event that they have been to visualize “the epic poem” of Australia, “the truest of histories”, they may begin with this book.’ —Barry Hill, The Monthly

‘The paintings of Time Travel is in truth a manifesto for a brand new realizing of Australia, a brand new feel of country.’ —Nicolas Rothwell, The Australian

Tom Griffiths is the W okay Hancock Professor of heritage on the Australian nationwide college and the writer of Slicing the Silence: Voyaging to Antarctica (2007), Forests of Ash: An Environmental History (2001) and Hunters and creditors: The Antiquarian mind's eye in Australia (1996). His books and essays have gained prizes in literature, historical past, technology, politics and journalism, together with the best Minister’s Prize for Australian background, the Alfred Deakin Prize for an Essay Advancing Public Debate, and the Douglas Stewart and Nettie Palmer Prizes for Non-Fiction.