Len Beadell
(1923-1995) and a small team built a network of outback "highways"
for the atomic-bomb testing programme and for the Woomera rocket range
during the late 1950's and the 1960s.
The names of these tracks are now part of Australian folk-lore:
the Gunbarrel Highway, the Connie Sue Highway and so on.
He was a great speaker and writer and put many of his experiences down
on paper:
Len Beadell, Too Long In The Bush,
Kevin Weldon isbn 0-947116-69-9, 1st pub' 1965.
[more '98]
Len Beadell, Blast The Bush,
Rigby Ltd. library of Congress #66-24167, 1st pub' 1967.
Len Beadell, Bush Bashers,
Kevin Weldon isbn 0-947116-71-0, 1st pub' 1971.
Len Beadell, Still In The Bush,
Kevin Weldon isbn 0-947116-70-2, 1st pub' 1975.
Len Beadell, Beating About The Bush,
Kevin Weldon isbn 0-947116-72-9, 1st pub' 1976.
Len Beadell, End Of An Era,
Kevin Weldon isbn 0-947116-73-7, 1st pub' 1983.
6-pack of the above: isbn 0-947116-74-5
Len Beadell, Outback Highways - a compilation of 5,
Rigby isbn 0-7270-1083-2, 1979.
Len Beadell, Around the World in Eighty Delays,
Corkwood Press 1997.
[review]
- Thanks to Rod Genn.
In addition, Mark Shephard has written
A Lifetime in the Bush:
the Biography of Len Beadell,
Corkwood Press, 1998.
Len Beadell,
Too Long in the Bush - Talking Book,
read by Adelaide actor Mike Scheid,
Len Beadell's "Too Long in the Bush" has
now been released in two cassette tapes with a total duration of three
hours. Mike's voice is very reminiscent of Lennie's: the tape will be a
delight for long drives, camping in the bush as well as the armchair
traveller.
Price $19.95, Corkwood Press 1999.
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