Too long in the bush / Len Beadell.
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TextPublisher: Sydney, NSW : New Holland, [2014?]Description: 176 p. : ill., map ; 21 cmContent type: still image | cartographic image | text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 187662213X (J.B. Books); 9781864367195 (pbk.); 1864367199 :; 1863024069 (Landsdown Pub.)Subject(s): Beadell, Len, 1923-1995 | Fiction | Surveyors -- Australia -- Biography | Surveyors -- Australia | Roads -- Central Australia -- Design and construction | Roads -- Design and construction | Travel | Roads -- Australia, Central -- Design and construction | Central Australia -- Description and travel -- 1951-1975 | Australia, Central -- Description and travel -- 1951-1975 | Australia, Central -- Description and travel | Australia -- Central Australia | Gunbarrel Highway (W.A.)DDC classification: 625.709942 Summary: "Straight as a gunbarrell, they bulldozed their way through saltbush, sand-dunes, desert and salt lakes to make Australia's most incredible road - the Gunbarrell Highway ... From 1956 to 1958, Len Beadell and his team made the first road to cross Central Australia from east to west, 1500 kilometres from the Alice Springs road to ... 850 kilometres north of Kalgoorlie ... Beadell, using astronomical observations, would survey up to 400 of the projected road entirely alone ... Returning to his construction team, he would supervise operations as the road was pushed slowly forward"--Publisher's description.
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First published: Adelaide : Rigby, 1965.
Some copies distributed by J.B. Books, PO Box 118, Marleston SA 5033.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
"Straight as a gunbarrell, they bulldozed their way through saltbush, sand-dunes, desert and salt lakes to make Australia's most incredible road - the Gunbarrell Highway ... From 1956 to 1958, Len Beadell and his team made the first road to cross Central Australia from east to west, 1500 kilometres from the Alice Springs road to ... 850 kilometres north of Kalgoorlie ... Beadell, using astronomical observations, would survey up to 400 of the projected road entirely alone ... Returning to his construction team, he would supervise operations as the road was pushed slowly forward"--Publisher's description.
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