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This book charts the relationship between Australians and places of significance. Read examines peoples' attachment to houses, workplaces, communities and countries through interviews with numerous individuals who have lost these places or found them transformed. This is a bold and moving work of scholarship.

Table of Contents

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.

Returning to Nothing

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      Publisher Cambridge University Press
      Published 4 November 1996
      ISBN-13 9780521576994
      978-0521576994
      ISBN-10 0521576997
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      Description

      Book Synopsis

      This book charts the relationship between Australians and places of significance. Read examines peoples' attachment to houses, workplaces, communities and countries through interviews with numerous individuals who have lost these places or found them transformed. This is a bold and moving work of scholarship.

      Table of Contents

      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.

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