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Price: $ 15.35
Price Ex GST: $ 13.95
Weight: 200 gms
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Author: Len Beadell
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Format: Paperback
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Size: 140 x 210mm
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ISBN: 1863024034
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Publisher: New Holland Publishers
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Published: 1999
Description
Laden with trig poles, theodolites - and porridge - Len 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 astro-fixes 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'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.
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