END OF AN ERA: desert highway construction LEN BEADELL

END OF AN ERA

BEYOND THE GUNBARREL HIGHWAY:

THE FINAL PUSH ACROSS THE WESTERN DESERTS

by LEN BEADELL

The Gary Highway was planned as a connecting road north from the Gunbarrel Highway 340 kms to Gary Junction.  From here a second highway would be surveyed and constructed heading north-west for 680 kms connecting with the W.A. road system somewhere near Marble Bar.  The third highway was planned further south connecting the road system near Ethel Creek, with a point halfway along the Gary Highway, some 470 kms.  All of this in one year's work.  The author and his party contended with heat, cold and wind storms, countless flat tyres, broken gearboxes and clutches;  a small native tribe which had never seen a white person were discovered by Len.   This is an entertaining book of outback adventures!

This hardcover with dustjacket book is ex-library and so is
plastic covered with the usual stamps and envelope, it has 206
pages with photos and was published in 1985 (2nd ed.)
Postage:  $9.70.