AUSTRALIANA Biography –

Beadell, Len, 1923-1995. | Surveyors — Australia — Biography. | Authors, Australian — South Australia — Biography. | Woomera (S.A.)

x, 252 p. : ill. (some col.), maps, ports. (some col.) ; 24 cm. First Edition. #0118/310526

Leonard Beadell OAM BEM FIEMS (21 April 1923 – 12 May 1995) was a surveyor, road builder, bushman, artist and author, responsible for constructing over 6,000 km (3,700 mi) of roads and opening up isolated desert areas – some 2.5 million square kilometres (970 thousand square miles) – of central Australia from 1947 to 1963.^[1] Born in West Pennant Hills, New South Wales, Beadell is sometimes called “the last true Australian explorer”.