Still in the bush

by Len Beadell

175 pages

First published January 1, 1965

Reviews

[Choopie · Rating 4 out of 5]

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[Connor FitzGerald · Rating 4 out of 5]

This is a great read about one of the last genuine pioneering escapades in Australian history. Len Beadell is a national treasure.

[Colleen O'grady · Rating 5 out of 5]

"we're looking for someone to start some sort of rocket range - or something." Len Beadell cheerfully accepted the challenge in this apparently casual remark and thus began his involvement in what was to become a multi-billion dollar weaponms testing project in the Australian ouback - on the Woomera Rocket Range. Time was 1949 and he armed himself with his trig poles, theoolites - and porridge - an slim bread (Sao biscuits) packed into his Jeep for the enormous survey task he had over some of the most inhospitable country in the world. He wrote his experiences that generated many a laugh, and included his own comical strips with his little bungarra as a visitor and photographs

[Terri]

This is the story of how our country's interior was opened up. Tales from the men who for years worked day and night in the harshest of Australian environments without any creature comforts (like a roof) scoping out "some sort of a rocket range - or something".
Whatever your view on the testing carried out at Woomera, this is the story of how an unmapped area of 1000's of square kilometers was charted and settled.

[Colleen O'grady · Rating 5 out of 5]

The harsh and unforgiving environment that is the lot of outback Australia and how it was relatively tamed by Beadell and the late 1940s and 1950s. In his baggy shorts and Blucher boots, but extremely qualified as an explorer, navigator, astronomer and road builder, Beadell built his first road across inhospitable country to prepare the way for the Woomera Rocket base. A good read

[Sarah · Rating 4 out of 5]

Quite readable for an outback based biography on a surveyor. It's a shame it was for the nuclear testing areas but this surveyor-cartographer has toughed it out to see and experience some unique country and it's people