End of an Era (Len Beadell)

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As usual, it was hard work and rollicking adventure for the Gunbarrel Road Construction Party as they surveyed and built their last three highways across the deserts of Central Australia. The Gary Highway was to head north for 350 kilometres from the Gunbarrel Highway to Gary Junction. Then a second highway of 650 kilometres was planned to join up with the West Australian road system near Marble Bar. A third would connect the road system near Ethel Creek to a point halfway along the Gary Highway, another 470 kilometres. And all this in one year's work! Len Beadell's team had to contend with flat tyres and broken gearboxes as well as the natural difficulties of the outback country of seemingly never-ending sandhills and limitless spinifex plains, in searing heat, bitter cold and violent wind storms. But regardless of these conditions, the team maintained a much needed sense of humour and an awareness of taking part in an exciting venture. On one foward reconnaissance Beadell discovered a small group of Aborigines who had never before seen a white person and alos rediscovered two wells on the Canning Stock Route. These and many other adventures of the outback are retold in Beadell's own lively and entertaining style. AUTHOR: Len Beadell PAGES: 206 Pages DIMENSIONS: 140 x 210 mm PUBLISHED BY: New Holland Publishers PUBLISHED DATE: 1st Published 1983, this reprint 2000 ISBN: 1 86436733-4


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