Beating about the bush
Len Beadell

Publisher 
Lansdowne Publishing | 1994.
Rigby | 1976.
French Forest, NSW : New Holland | 2000. & [2012]

Summary
The longest towing operation in history through the desert in 1960.
PLACES & PEOPLES: GENERAL INTEREST. AUSTRALIAN. Len Beadell's classic account of the building of the famous Gunbarrel Highway across Central Australia in which he recounts in his own colourful style the outstanding events of its construction.
Account of road surveying and construction expedition across the Northern Territory and Western Australia; includes description of first contact with an un-named tribe.

Notes
First published: Adelaide : Rigby, 1976.
"This is a limited edition of fifty numbered copies bound in kangaroo leather"
Available also as part of a boxed set entitled A lifetime in the bush
Maps on endpaper.
Libraries Australia ID: 1458561
Roads. Construction. Central Australia. Personal observations (ANB/RECIS)
Some copies distributed by J.B. Books, PO Box 118, Marleston SA 5033.
Contents:
1. Hot Water Laid On
2. They Don't Make Them Like They Used To
3. A Desert Tragedy
4. Sandy Blight Junction
5. Mount Leisler
6. Tietkens' Tree
7. The Discovery at Davenport
8. An Open-Air Workshop
9. Bush Bedrooms
10. The Border Crossing
11. The Discovery of a Desert Tribe
12. The Sir Frederick Range
13. Roads Do Make it Easier
14. Lake Hopkins
15. "This 'Arid' Land" 
16. An Exciting Thought
17. Bungabiddy and Home.

Physical Description  

192 p. : ill., map. ; 21 cm.
192 p., [8] leaves of plates ; 22 cm.
192 p., [16] p. of plates ill., map ; 21 cm.

Dewey Call Number
625.7 BEA
994.2 BEA
625.7/994/

Museum Call Number
XXX

ISBN
1863024042
0727002260
1864367180
9781864367188

Subjects
Roads -- Australia, Central -- Design and construction.
Australia, Central -- Description and travel.
Roads -- Northern Territory -- Design and construction.
Roads -- Western Australia -- Design and construction.
Northern Territory -- Description and travel.
Western Australia -- Description and travel.
Beadell, Len, 1923-1995.
Surveyors -- Australia -- Biography.
Roads -- Australia, Central -- Design and construction.
Road construction.
Roads -- Australia -- Northern Territory.
Roads -- Australia -- Western Australia -- Design and construction.
Roads.
Roads -- Design and construction.
Travel.
Roads. Construction. Central Australia. Personal observations.
Roads -- Australia, Central.
Settlement and contacts.
Transport - Road - Construction and maintenance.
Northern Territory.
Western Australia
Northern Territory -- Description and travel.
Western Australia -- Description and travel.
Great Sandy Desert (WA SE51, SF51)

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