The Vanished Land

<p><em>The Vanished Land</em> is the Western District of Victoria stripped of its identity its social elite of grazing dynasties departed for their own reasons.<br /><br />This melancholy exodus has increased recently as the myriad pressures of holding inherited land have become intolerable in a nation never intimidated by ditching its past. No longer is the Western District home of a ruling class that for 150 years bestrode an Australia riding on the sheep’s back.<br /><br /><em>The Vanished Land</em> 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.<br /> </p>