Meet Max Anderson, Author of Digger
Multi-award winning author Max Anderson has worked as a writer in Adelaide, Sydney and London. In 2001, while Deputy Travel Editor of the Sunday Times, he won AITO British Travel Journalist of the Year and a Travelex Travel Writer's Award.
Digger is a classic adventure, travel story of a year spent prospecting for elusive gold. Anderson’s journey took him to one of the remotest parts of Western Australia, Kookynie, a town of eight buildings that stand in a landscape of rubble, foundations and mining waste -the remains of a town of 3,500 which died before the Great War began.
Overa period of a year, Anderson obsessively sought gold in the soil and landscape around him- a passion that threatened his relationships, health and sanity. His search for gold became a search for living history and his story is rich with historical detail, telling of forgotten communities and a dying breed of man: the rugged prospector whose life is inextricably linked to the land he takes from.
Date: Wednesday 18th March, 10am
Where: The Pavilion at Carrick Hill
Tickets: $35.00 includes morning tea & raffle ticket
