AUSTRALIAN GHOST TOWNS.
Melbourne, Published by Lothian Books, 2002. 4to. pp.x + 246.index, black & white and colour illustrations. book sellers stamp at foot of map endpapers.Original white laminated hardcover in pictorial dust wrapper. very good copy. Item #195140
Australian history and landscape are littered with the half buried remains of towns that once thrived. Tumbledown ruins, silent streets and empty windows remain as testaments to spirit that sometimes faltered under the onslaught of the change circumstance. Mine yields that fell, industries that failed, the end of penal colonies
droughts and rural decline. Some today are little more than rubble while others have struggled on a shadow of their former selves but determined to rebuild.
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