Still In The Bush
Beadell Len
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Cover Type: Softcover
Book Condition: As New
Jacket Condition: None Issued
Publisher: New Holland
Publisher Place: Australia
Publisher Year: 2001
Edition: Reprint
Description: 175 pages. Book appears to have hardly been read and is in As new condition throughout.
Publishers Description: 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 Beadells 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
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