Toghill, Jeff

GHOST PORTS OF AUSTRALIA.

Pp. vi+186, numerous text illustrations and maps, index; small demy 4to; brown boards, spine lettered in white, edges of boards a trifle rubbed; dust wrapper, the back panel slightly scuffed, backstrip lightly faded; Macmillan, Melbourne, 1984. First edition. *'Most of the ports declined gradually with the advent of the railway and improved roads. Coastal shipping, which sometimes had to cope with exposed wharves and fierce seas, could not compete with the speed and efficiency of the railways. Today all that remain of the ports are rotting piles, rusting bolts, breakwater stones - and ghosts' [wrapper blurb]. Item #178503

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