Len Beadell

In this book, Len Beadell tells the story of his second road trip across Australia which was driven 1600 kilometres from east to west, from South Australia to West Australia through the heart of the Great Victoria Desert. Construction took years, as the road was driven through the almost impenetrable mulga scrub and over sand ridges which until Beadell's bulldozer...

Len Beadell OAM was often called the last of the true Australian explorers. As a surveyor and road builder, he worked all over the outback from Arnhem Land to the Gibson Desert. This special commemorative edition of Outback Highways is being released to mark the centenary of Len Beadell's birth. He was a much-loved author who brought outback Australians onto...

Too Long in the Bush tells the story of how, from 1956 to 1958, Len Beadell and his team made the first road to cross Central Australia from east to west.