Kenneth W. Byron has spent several years investigating all the available records concerning the lost treasures of Australia and New Zealand, and has written book that covers the whole subject in fascinating detail. Many extraordinary happenings and unsolved mysteries come under examination here - stories of the Dutch treasure ships of the seventeenth century wrecked off the coast of Western Australia; of lost gold reefs said to exist in Australia, and the caches of bushrangers like Ben Hall and Thunderbolt; of two famous treasure ships of New Zealand waters, the Elingalnite and the General Grant; of treasures that have actually been found and many others still awaiting discovery. Illustrated with sixteen pages of maps drawn by Josephine Mayo, cartographer of the Australian Encyclopaedia.

Bibliography: pp. 216-225.