Tom Griffiths is Emeritus Professor of History at the Australian National University. His books include The Art of Time Travel: Historians and Their Craft and Slicing the Silence: Voyaging to Antarctica. His writing has won prizes in literature, history, science, politics and journalism, including the Prime Minister's Prize for Australian History, the Alfred Deakin Prize for an Essay Advancing Public Debate and the Douglas Stewart and Nettie Palmer Prizes for Non-Fiction. His forthcoming book is Alice's dreaming.