ix 201 pages, indexed, illustrated, bibliography. Apart from an ownership label on the front end paper, clean, unmarked and solid. The book offers no publishing date, 1988 was taken from Trove. "Minhamite shire (1871-1994) was in western Victoria, immediately north of Belfast shire which was contiguous to Port Fairy. The shire was entirely rural, with two small townships which between them had seven shops in 1992. The townships were Macarthur and Hawkesdale (the administrative centre of the shire). Macarthur was the larger of the two." (Victorian Places) 'Peter Yule is a research fellow in the School of Historical and Philosophical Studies at the University of Melbourne.