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Returning to Nothing: The Meaning of Lost Places
Contributor(s): Read, Peter (Author)
ISBN: 0521576997     ISBN-13: 9780521576994
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
OUR PRICE:   $28.49  
Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats
Published: January 1998
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BISAC Categories:
- Psychology | Mental Health
- Science | Earth Sciences - Geography
Dewey: 155.935
LCCN: 96016590
Physical Information: 0.58" H x 6" W x 9" (0.84 lbs) 256 pages
 
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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.