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End of an Era by Len Beadell
$19.99 AUD
Category: Australiana
Len Beadell's team had to contend with flat tyres and broken gear boxes as well as all the natural difficulties of the outback as they endeavoured to build three highways in one year! On one forward reconnaissance Beadell discovered a small group of Aborigines who had never before seen a white person, a ...Show more
Outback Highways-Special Ed-100 years: 100 year commemorative edition by Beadell Len
$39.99 AUD
Category: Australiana
LEN BEADELL OAM was often called the last of the true Australian explorers. As a surveyor and road builder he worked all over the outback from Arnhem Land to the Gibson Desert. This special commemorative edition of Outback Highways is being released to mark the centenary of Len Beadell’s birth. He was a ...Show more
Still in the Bush by Len Beadell
$22.99 AUD
Category: Australiana
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 be ...Show more
Too Long in the Bush by Len Beadell
$22.99 AUD
Category: Australiana
Too Long In the Bush is the story of how, from 1956 to 1958, Len Beadell and his team made the first road across Central Australia from east to west, 1500 kilometres from the Alice Springs road to Carnegie homestead 650 kilometres north of Kalgoorlie. On the way he surveyed and built the Giles Meteorolo ...Show more
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