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Still in the Bush

Still in the Bush 1

by Len Beadell
Paperback
Publication Date: 01/06/2001
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Laden with trig poles, theodolites - and porridge - Beadell and his team built roads, laid out town sites and undertook an enormous survey programme in order to prepare a test launching area in one of the most isolated parts of the world. 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. Len Beadell's descriptions of the countryside, the adventures the team experienced, and the Australian bush characters they encountered are by turns illuminating and hilarious. His high-spirited account of the work that had to be done 'before they called it Woomera' makes vivid and entertaining reading.
ISBN:
9781864367836
9781864367836
Category:
True stories: discovery / historical / scientific
Format:
Paperback
Publication Date:
01-06-2001
Publisher:
New Holland Publishers
Country of origin:
Australia
Pages:
180
Dimensions (mm):
226x134x14mm
Weight:
0.23kg
Len Beadell

Len Beadell,who has been called the last of the true Australian explorers,was born on a farm at west Pennant Hills,NSW, in 1923. As a surveyor and road builder he has worked all over the Australian outback from Arnhem Land to the Gibson Desert.

In 1958 hes was awarded the British Empire Medal for his work in building the Gunbarrel Highway across Central Australia. In 1987 he was made a Fellow of the Institute of Engineering and Mining Surveyors (Aust) and the following year he was awarded the Medal of the Order of Australia.

Len Beadell is the author of six best-selling books.

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Forgot to add a star rating when I wrote review and it is definitely at least a four star book for me.

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