Len Beadell's Books

'When your grader breaks down in the middle of the desert, there's only one thing you can do - attach it to your bulldozer and tow it back to civilisation'. 192pp

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Beadell tells the story of the people who worked on the project for selecting and preparing the location for the weapons testing trials. 212pp.

This is the story of Beadells second road across Australia which was driven 1600kms from east to west.163pp.

As usual, it was hard work and rollicking adventure for the Gunbarrel Road Construction Party as they surveyed and built their last three highways across the desserts of Central Australia. 206pp.

This is a high-spirited account of the work that had to be done on the multi-billion dollar weapons testing project in the Australian outback "before they called it Woomera". 175pp. 

Straight as a gunbarrel, they bulldozed their way through saltbush, sand-dunes, desert and  salt lakes to make Australia's most incredible road - The Gunbarrel Highway.

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A compilation of the six books above.

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