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