Return to Roxby Downs

Showers, John

ISBN 10: 0646382187 / ISBN 13: 9780646382180

Published by Bookends & Author, Unley, SA, 1999

About this Item

x+197pp., Pictorial full colour illustrated dustjacket, matching col. illust. stiff covers, col. frontis., foreword by Sir Arvi Parbo, author's note, intro., col. & b/w plts. & text, maps- full page, plans, appends., key dates- Olympic Dam dev. & personalities, sheep station people. John Showers was a member of Len Beadell's 1947 Army Survey Unit detailed to map the area prior to development of the Woomera Township and Rocket Range. Thirty years later as a Civil Engineer with Western Mining Corporation he returned and was intimately involved in establishing the infrastructure to support the development of the Olympic Dam Mine and the new Township of Roxby Downs. Size: Octavo.

Seller Inventory # 003993

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Return to Roxby Downs
• Publisher: Bookends & Author, Unley, SA
• Publication Date: 1999
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0646382187
• ISBN 13: 9780646382180
• Binding: Soft cover
• Edition: 1st Edition.
• Condition: As New
• Dust Jacket Condition: As New
• Book Type: Book

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Synopsis

Story and outline of the author's first trip to the outback area of Roxby Downs and then when he went back again after 30 years as a Civil Engineer involved in establishing the infrastructure in support of the investigations and development of the Olympic Dam Mine and the township of Roxby Downs.