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Afficher les exemplaires de cette édition ISBNBUSH BASHERS continues the story of Len Beadell and his Gunbarrel Road Construction Party who made a network of 4,000 miles of the loneliest roads in the world. They were built to open up three quarters of a million square miles of almost unknown wilderness to an Australia-wide survey.
In this book, he tells the story of the second 1,000-mile road across Australia; which was driven through the Victoria Desert, and of the survey and construction of the only road which runs diagonally across north-western South Australia. The work went on for years, through almost impenetrable mulga scrub and over sand ridges which had stopped everything but camels until the bulldozers came.
The construction team worked in all weathers from below freezing point to above century heat, and for much of the time relied for their lives upon Len Beadell's skill in carrying out astronomical observations the only means of finding their way through the desert.
For five months, the youngest member of the party was the author's five-month-old daughter, during the period in which she and his wife camped with him in the desert. She was the only white baby who ever lived in this inhospitable territory, and her stay there is commemorated by the Connie Sue Highway ; a 400-mile stretch of road from the Warburton Ranges to Rawlinna on the Nullarbor, built by the Bush Bashers during that period.
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