Still in the Bush
Author(s): Len Beadell
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 Beadell's 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.
Product Information
General Fields
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- : New Holland Publishers Pty, Limited
- : New Holland (Australia)
- : 0.235
- : 31 May 2001
- : 208mm X 139mm
- : books
Special Fields
- : Len Beadell
- : Paperback
- : 629.47/8/099423
- : 175