End of an Era: Beyond the Gunbarrel Highway: The final push across the Western Deserts

2nd printing hardback with dust jacket As New octavo 206pp., b/w plates, text ills., ep maps, 'As they surveyed and built their last three highways across the deserts of Central Australia, Beadell's team had to contend with flat tyres and broken gear boxes as well as all the natural difficulties of the outback as they endeavoured to build three highways in one year! On one forward reconnaissance Beadell discovered a small group of Aborigines who had never before seen a white person, as well as rediscovering two wells on the Canning Stock route'.