Returning to nothing : the meaning of lost places / Peter Read.

By:

Read, Peter, 1945-

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: Cambridge ; Melbourne : Cambridge University Press, 1996.Description: xiv, 240 p. ; 23 cmISBN:

0521571545
0521576997 (pbk.) :

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

155.935 20

Subject: Feelings about lost or destroyed places rouse our deepest emotions. We pour so much of ourselves into our houses, suburbs, towns and landscapes that they not only represent our lives, they become our lives. Losing a home or a suburb or leaving a homeland can be like losing a loved one. 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

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Item type	Current library	Collection	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Books	Australian Emergency Management Library	BOOK	155.935 RET (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		900117583

Includes index.

Bibliography: p. 224-235.

Feelings about lost or destroyed places rouse our deepest emotions. We pour so much of ourselves into our houses, suburbs, towns and landscapes that they not only represent our lives, they become our lives. Losing a home or a suburb or leaving a homeland can be like losing a loved one. 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

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