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entertaining read. Well written, well researched and containing many interesting anecdotes about Australia's lost towns, George Farwell has a clear understanding of the Australian ethos particularly for a Pom, I will try and find more of his books to read now, In some ways this is a book of its time, Published back in the earlys it chronicles a series of Australian towns that have either been abandoned or are in serious decline.
Though the town of Clunes in Victoria may currently dispute its status in the book,
I love these books of Australian history as there is a personal element to the stories and capture of what is unique.

It is worth the read as it does make you want to travel those outback roads and try to discover what has happened to these towns.

You must keep in mind that this book was published in, almostyears before my reading of it.


My interest in these towns was initially piqued when my wife and I toured Australia for the first time in, and in doing so visited many of these places.


Some have continued in decline, or stayed basically dead, others have staged a remarkable comeback and are now booming towns, even cities.
Which shows that history is a living dynamic, those present today can never seriously predict what will take place in half a century hence.


The book self is well researched and written and gives valuable insights into the people, politics and country that have lead to the present day Australia.


There are any number of secondhand copies about, so it must have been a good seller in is day.
Worth every cent of theI paid for my copy at the Lifeline book fair in Canberra, Despite its comparatively short history of white settlement, the map of Australia is spattered with the names of towns that are

now only a handful of ruins, or ess than that, or linger on, each with its once busy streets lined with glassless windows except for perhaps those of perhaps half a dozen houses, a store, and a shady pub with decaying veranda.
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Some were killed when the gold petered out, Some languished when lack of rain, and erosion, forced the farmer off the surrounding marginal lands, And some just died. In Ghost Towns of Australia, George Farwell writes of a number of the most colourful telling of their past glories, the reasons for their decline, and their picturesque decay.

The book may be described as filling in, from the reader's point of view, a number of the emptying spaces of Australia.
Farwell was born in Bath, Somerset, England and was educated at a number of different schools, ending with Forest School, Walthamstow, which he left at age.
He lost both his parents at about the same time, and after struggling to make a living in Depression era London, he left for an eighteen month expedition to French Polynesia.
This led to a life of fairly constant travel, Arriving in Sydney in, he worked in or near that city at various jobs such as deckhand, dock labourer and gold miner, and contributed articles to the Sydney Mail at the same time.
Although Farwell experienced a number of lean years in Sydney, he kept on writing about the various experiences he had on the job, as well as on his travels to various parts of the worl Farwell was born in Bath, Somerset, England and was educated at a number of different schools, ending with Forest School, Walthamstow, which he left at age.
He lost both his parents at about the same time, and after struggling to make a living in Depression era London, he left for an eighteen month expedition to French Polynesia.
This led to a life of fairly constant travel, Arriving in Sydney in, he worked in or near that city at various jobs such as deckhand, dock labourer and gold miner, and contributed articles to the Sydney Mail at the same time.
Although Farwell experienced a number of lean years in Sydney, he kept on writing about the various experiences he had on the job, as well as on his travels to various parts of the world.
His first book, Down Argent Street, telling the story of Broken Hill, New South Wales, was published in.
He published twenty two books in all, including an autobiography and biographies of Charles Sturt and E, D. S. Ogilvie. His articles and short stories have appeared in numerous publications, including The Bulletin and Walkabout, sitelink.