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.
By:
Peter Read (Australian National University Canberra) Imprint: Cambridge University Pres Country of Publication: United Kingdom Dimensions:
Height: 229mm,
Width: 152mm,
Spine: 15mm
Weight: 380g ISBN:9780521576994 ISBN 10: 0521576997 Pages: 256 Publication Date:04 November 1996 Audience:
Professional and scholarly
,
Undergraduate
Format:Paperback Publisher's Status: Active
1. Losing Windermere station; 2. Vanished homelands; 3. Namadgi: sharing the high country; 4. Two dead towns; 5. Home: the heart of the matter; 6. Empty spaces: the inundation of Lake Pedder; 7. Darwin rebuilt; 8. Losing a neighbourhood; 9. That place.
"Short-listed for ""Banjo"" Award for Non-Fiction 1997"
Short-listed for Banjo Award for Non-Fiction 1997
Short-listed for Australian Award for Excellence in Educational Publishing: Tertiary Single Adaption 1997
Shortlisted for Banjo Award for Non-Fiction 1997.
Shortlisted for Australian Award for Excellence in Educational Publishing: Tertiary Single Adaption 1997.
