Blast the Bush

Description

First published 1967, this is the third book from lean Beadell, describing is outback explorations and road building. With his road building exploits behind him, Beadell was the perfect choice for the task of selecting and preparing the location for the weapons testing trials. With his characteristic humour and embellished with his own cartoons, Beadell tells the story of the people who worked on the project – in some cases it was as much a trial of them as it was of any weapon – and he recounts the sequence of events that led up to the gigantic explosion that was to BLAST THE BUSH.
Lean Beadell, who has been called the last of the true Australia explorers, was born on a farm at West pennant Hills, NSW, in 1923. As a surveyor and road builder he has worked all over the Australian outback from Arnhem Land to the Gibson Desert. In 1958 he was awarded the British Empire Medal for his work in building the Gunbarrel Highway across central Australia. In 1987 he was made a fellow of the Institute of Engineering and Mining Surveyors (Aust) and the following year was awarded the Medal of the order of Australia. The author of six best selling books, he was married with three children, all of whom have features in outback Australia named after them.