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Returning To Nothing: The Meaning Of Lost Places

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This book examines what it means to lose a place forever and why we return, and keep on returning, to these places so large in our memories. It considers many lost towns, suburbs and homes: Darwin after Cyclone Tracy, the flooding of the town of Adaminaby in NSW, the inundation of Lake Pedder in Tasmania, bushfire at Macedon in Victoria, migration from other countries, the clearing of neighborhoods for freeways and the everyday circumstances that force people from their land. It establishes how important the places we live in are, and how much we grieve when we lose them.

Language: English

Format: Hardcover

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Release: January 28, 1997

ISBN: 0521571545

ISBN 13: 9780521571548

Returning To Nothing: The Meaning Of Lost Places

4.5/5 ( ratings)

This book examines what it means to lose a place forever and why we return, and keep on returning, to these places so large in our memories. It considers many lost towns, suburbs and homes: Darwin after Cyclone Tracy, the flooding of the town of Adaminaby in NSW, the inundation of Lake Pedder in Tasmania, bushfire at Macedon in Victoria, migration from other countries, the clearing of neighborhoods for freeways and the everyday circumstances that force people from their land. It establishes how important the places we live in are, and how much we grieve when we lose them.

Language: English

Format: Hardcover

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Release: January 28, 1997

ISBN: 0521571545

ISBN 13: 9780521571548

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