The Water Dreamers
Shortlist year:
2010
Shortlist category:
Non-fiction
Published by:
The Text Publishing Company
About the book
The Water Dreamers is an illuminating account of the ways people have imagined and interpreted Australia while struggling to understand this continent and striving to conquer its obstacles. It’s an environmental history and a cultural history with an unmistakable sense of how, today, we are part of that continuing story.
About the author
Michael Cathcart
Michael Cathcart was born in Melbourne in 1956—the year that television came to Australia. He was educated at Melbourne Grammar, the University of Melbourne, ANU and a tyre factory in Port Melbourne. He has worked as a schoolteacher, university lecturer and theatre director.
Cathcart is currently the presenter of Radio National’s ‘Books & Arts’ program and he has also presented ‘Arts Today’ and the ‘Radio National Quiz’.
