CONTENTS

PART ONE

1 Wiseman’s Ferry

2 Walking for Reconciliation

3 The Mitchell Library

4 Centenary of Federation

5 The Society of Genealogists

6 The Public Record Office

7 Three Cranes Wharf

8 Lightermen

9 The London Poor

10 Wiseman’s Life

11 Voices and Pictures

12 The Ghost Room

13 A Little Learning

14 The News of the Day

15 Historians

16 Aboriginal Voices

17 The Bush at Night

PART TWO

18 Starting to Write

19 The Assembly

20 The Fictional Quester

21 The Land Speaking

PART THREE

22 What Have I Got?

23 Finding the Characters

24 The Aboriginal Characters

25 Dialogue

26 The First Readers

27 Into the World

Acknowledgments