The Vanished Land

Disappearing dynasties of Victoria’s Western District

Nonfiction, History, Australia & Oceania
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Author: Richard Zachariah ISBN: 9781743055113
Publisher: Wakefield Press Publication: September 6, 2017
Imprint: Wakefield Press Language: English
Author: Richard Zachariah
ISBN: 9781743055113
Publisher: Wakefield Press
Publication: September 6, 2017
Imprint: Wakefield Press
Language: English

The Vanished Land is the Western District of Victoria stripped of its identity, its social elite of grazing dynasties departed for their own reasons. The melancholic exodus has increased recently as the myriad pressures of holding inherited land have become intolerable in a nation never intimidated by ditching its past. This historic plain of fecundity demands an investigation of its ending as the home of a ruling class that for 150 years bestrode an Australia riding on the sheep's back. "The Vanished Land" is a human tale of leaving, of a disconnect with the land, of submerged anguish and inhibited grief, a private story of loss told for the first time by an outsider with insider connection.

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The Vanished Land is the Western District of Victoria stripped of its identity, its social elite of grazing dynasties departed for their own reasons. The melancholic exodus has increased recently as the myriad pressures of holding inherited land have become intolerable in a nation never intimidated by ditching its past. This historic plain of fecundity demands an investigation of its ending as the home of a ruling class that for 150 years bestrode an Australia riding on the sheep's back. "The Vanished Land" is a human tale of leaving, of a disconnect with the land, of submerged anguish and inhibited grief, a private story of loss told for the first time by an outsider with insider connection.

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