#Non-fiction: The Art of Time Travel
- Author: T. Griffiths
- Title: The Art of Time Travel: Historians and Their Craft
- Published: 2016
- List of Challenges 2019
- Monthly plan
- Non-Fiction Reading List
- The book contains 14 chapters
- …some more interesting than others.
- My favorite historians after reading this book are:
- Eleanor Dark: (1901-1985) (novelist).
- Eleanor Dark has been seen to be neglected
- as a female writer, social critic, Australian novelist and
- also as an historian.
- I want to read her book The Timeless Land.
- Greg Dening (1931-2008) just captured my heart.
- He demanded that his students take risks and and at times even fail.
- History is a discipline without a discipline.
- Nothing is discovered finally.
- This chapter gave me skin shivers when I read the last words.
- Henry Reynolds: (1938) This chapter was an eye-opener for me.
- I learned ..about the ‘forgotten war’ and aboriginal lawyer, historian Noel Pearson.
- Reynolds has always been a ‘just-do-it’ historian.
- His style is lean, linear and logical.
- Reynolds does not depend on the lyrical language
- used by Australian histories to evoke the brutality of the past.
- He is straightforward.
- Forgotten War by H. Reynolds is on my TBR.
- Eric Rolls: A Million Wild Acres
- Tom Griffiths said this would be THE book about Australia he
- …would put in the hands of any visitor to his country to help them understand it.
- I just ordered Rolls’ book all the way from Australia!…can’t wait to read it.
- Griffiths considers this book the BEST environmental history written of Australia!
Conclusion:
- This was a wonderful read
- …I learned so much about Australia!
- #GreatNonFiction
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On my tbr pile. It had some race reviews & I love your enthusiasm for it.
I’ll be curious to hear your thoughts on the rest of the Stella shortlist. I was very underwhelmed this year. Preferred more books on the long list to be honest – The Arsonist, The Death of Noah Glass, The Whole World…I may read Little Gods as Kate’s review piqued my interest. And I’m keen to read Axiomatic cause all that stuff about death & grief & loss is right up my literature alley!!
I’ve just been checking out the Walter Scott Prize long & shortlists – very excited to read them all 😁
I’ve read 3/5 on Stella Shortlist (Gandolfo, Lucashenko and Tumarkin)
Reading Pink Mountain on Locust Island (J.M. Lau) today.
The Erratics…I can’t get a e-book version…hmmm.
Little Gods is do-able before prize announcement.
You as a lover of historical fiction…W. Scott shortlist is a perfect reading goal.