Returning to Nothing
Subtitle: The Meaning of Lost Places
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: January 28, 1997
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 254
ISBN-13: 9780521571548
Subjects: Human ecology; Natural Disasters; Psychological Aspects Of Bereavement; Science; Psychology; History: World; Earth Sciences - Geography; Mental Health; Natural disasters--Australia--Psychological aspects; Science / Geography; Australia; Landscape changes; Loss (Psychology); Psychological aspects
Description: This book examines what it means to lose a place forever and why we return, and keep on returning, to the places that remain in our memories.

Returning to Nothing considers lost countries, towns, suburbs and homes: Darwin after Cyclone Tracy, the flooding of the town of Adaminaby in New South Wales, the inundation of Lake Pedder in Tasmania, bushfire at Macedon in Victoria, migration from other countries, the clearing of neighbourhoods for freeways and the everyday circumstances which force people from their land.

The memories and powerful attachments to places of significance, and the struggles to save them, fill the pages of this moving book.