Still in the bush / Len Beadell.
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994.17 RIN Esperance yesterday and today / | 994.23/4092 Rolling into the world : | 994.232 MOR I remember Mount Mary : | 994.238 BEA Still in the bush / | 994.238 BEA Blast the bush / | 994.238 LOC Lake Eyre : a journey through the heart of the continent / | 994.29 ATT Quest under Capricorn. |
First published: 1965.
"We're looking for someone to start some sort of rocket range - or something." Len Beadell accepted the challenge in this casual remark and began his involvement in what was to become a multi-billion dollar weapons testing project in the Australian outback - on the Woomera Rocket Range. Beadell and his team built roads, laid out town sites and undertook an enormous survey programme in order to prepare a test launching area. The problems ranged from taking astrofixes in a cloudy sky and becoming surrounded by a sea of red mud to patching a bald spot on a pet joey. All were solved by using those two most necessary ingredients of life in the bush - ingenuity and imagination. Beadell's descriptions of the countryside, the adventures the team experienced, and the characters they encountered are by turns illuminating and hilarious.
Australian Outback.
Travel Writing;
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