With the exception of the historic Blue Duck Hotel at Anglers Rest, they are all places that formerly hosted business houses during the goldfields boom and bust era between the 1850s and 1950s. Some are now quiet or abandoned mountain localities with ever-diminishing remnants of their past. Others have entirely vanished off modern-day maps.

The first edition of this book told, in brief, the stories of fifty of these places and the people who once lived there.

This second edition expands and improves on those places and stories, drawing on the vast amount of information and public records that have recently been made available via the internet.

The book has now been enlarged from an initial 79 pages to more than 240 pages, with an increase in places featured from about fifty to sixty-one.

Coverage includes that part of the Victorian Alpine region between Bairnsdale in Gippsland and Bright in North-Eastern Victoria.

Ghost Towns and places include:

Anglers Rest Copenhagen Iguana Creek Store Creek

Blacks Snake Creek Cravensville Jeff Davis Summer Hill

Boggy Creek Dargo High Plains Lightning Creek Sunnyside

Brandy Creek Dartmouth (OLD) Louisville Tabberabbera

Brocket Deptford Mayford Talbotville

Brookville Gibbo River Merrijig Creek Tambo Crossing

Buckland Gladstone Mitchelldale Tongio West

Buckland Camp Glen Dart Mount Elmo Verdon

Buckland Upper Glen Valley Nariel Waterford

Budgee Budgee Glen Wills Nugong Wentworth River

Bulgoback Good Luck Creek Sassafras Creek Winchester

Bull Town Granite Flat Seldom Seen Wombat Creek

Bullumwaal Grant Spring Hill Zulu Creek

Canvastown Hinnomunjie Squirrel Forest ......... and more.

Cassilis Hog Town Staleyville

Cobbannah Howittville Stirling

Additional product information
Size: A4
Pages: 244 pages
Binding: Hard Cover
Publication Date: September 2019
Images (Colour or Mono) Colour
Author and/or publisher Luke Steenhuis