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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.
176 p., [16] p. of plates : ill., maps ; 22 cm. HARDCOVER First Edition. #161222 (Gift inscription on prelims.)
Leonard Beadell OAM BEM FIEMS was a surveyor, road builder, bushman, artist and author, responsible for constructing over 6,000 km of roads and opening up isolated desert areas – some 2.5 million square kilometres – of central Australia from 1947 to 1963.
Roads — Australia, Central — Design and construction. | Australia, Central — Description and travel. Beadell, Len, 1923-1995. Lifetime in the bush