by Ben Rice
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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