For those of us with poor memories and worse geography, Tora Bora is the complex of caves in eastern Afghanistan where it was thought Bin Laden was hiding.
Rolled up in a feast or a snack, a Sunday roast or a piece of sashimi is a story of history, geography, memory and time just waiting to be unpicked.
Prof Bonnett, whose research includes the politics and geography of nostalgia and memory, believes sympathetic regeneration is key to avoiding what he terms "blandscapes".
His recollections speak to the geography of memory and the power of place.
Shared by the elders during qualitative interviews, narratives relating past journeys along the rivers revealed how deep the connection is between geography and memory and to what extent remembering may constitute a way of inhabiting lost landscapes.
Using metaphoric memories to blur the boundaries of time and geography, Dah Teatar has found an artistic method well suited to the landscape of cultural confusion that prevails in the country now known as "the former Yugoslavia".
I tell my therapist about my earliest memories and the bizarre geography of my family.
Louis nevertheless possessed an excellent memory, acquired a sound knowledge of Latin and English, and took an interest in history and geography.
He also has a prodigious memory, and recalls the details not only of every local Bigfoot sighting, but the history and geography of the wilderness where all sightings have happened.
Any reasonably skilled novelist can evoke on the page the texture of memory, drawing the reader into the half-remembered, the blurred edges, the nervous nostalgia, the meandering associations across time and geography.
