Pobby and Dingan (7 page)

Acknowledgements

Thanks to Helen and Joe Stratford, Ridge rockhounds. And to the brilliant friends who read drafts: Rich Ager, Lucy Chandler, Helena Echlin, Ben Richardson, Tim Robinson, David Shelley, Philip Traill.

Two publications were a source of information:
The
Australian Geographic
and the pamphlet
Miner’s Tales from the Black Opal Country
by Rusty Bowen (1997).

A NOTE ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Ben Rice lives in London. This is his first book.

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