The Odyssey of a Digger
by F.D. Burdett
ISBN 0 85905 334 2, (2004 reprint of 1936 edition), soft cover, 170 pp, 220grams
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Fred Burdett was one of the earliest diggers at the Kimberley goldrush of the 1880s. His reminiscences cover pastoral life in NSW and the men and incidents of the early Kimberley. Gold strikes, murders, massacres, cannibals and diamonds in The Odyssey of a Digger.