Len Beadell S Legacy

Author : Ian Albert Edgar Bayly
Publisher : Bas Publishing
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Atomic bomb
ISBN : 1921496029

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Len Beadell's Legacy by Ian Albert Edgar Bayly Pdf

In June 1952, Len Beadell was called to a secret meeting in Salisbury, South Australia, and informed of the decision to explode an atomic bomb in Australia. He was set the task of finding an appropriate site. After exploring country to the west of Coober Pedy, he found an unnamed claypan (later called Emu) which the military approved as being suitable. It was close to the Emu Claypan that atomic bombs (Totem 1 and 2) were exploded on 15 and 27 October 1953. Even before the first of these two bombs was exploded, Beadell was asked to find a second site closer to the Trans Australian Railway. This second site was ominously called Maralinga (Aboriginal for thunder), and it was here that between 27 September 1956 and 9 October 1957 seven atomic bombs were exploded.In November 1955, after the experience of surveying and constructing the Emu and Maralinga sites and their associated access roads, Beadell headed a group that became known as the Gunbarrel Road Construction Party. Despite their relatively slender resources, this group was responsible for the construction of a remarkable system of roads through remote, mainly desert country to the west of the Stuart Highway. The first part of the Gunbarrel Highway, from Victory Downs station (close to the Stuart Highway) to Giles, was built between November 1955 and March 1956, and the second section from Giles to Carnegie Homestead was completed in November 1958. Other roads constructed were the Mount Davies Road (1956 & 1957), Sandy Blight Junction Road (1960), Gary Junction Road (1960 & 1963), Anne Beadell Highway (mostly 1961 & 1962), Voles Hill-Cook Road (1961), Connie Sue Highway (1962), Gary Highway (1963), Callawa Track (1963) and Tallawana Track (1963). The work of the Gunbarrel Road Construction Party came to an end when they reached the ruins of old Tallawana Homestead on 6 November 1963. Over a period of almost exactly eight years, this gallant group had constructed about 6,000 kilometres of roads. This book describes the extraordinary adventures and difficulties faced by Len Beadell and his group. Beadell showed remarkable courage and resourcefulness during his long and arduous solo reconnaissance trips. It was on one of these that he came very close to losing his life in March 1958.

Author : Timothy Neale,Crystal McKinnon,Eve Vincent
Publisher : UTS ePRESS
Page : 570 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2014-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780987236913

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History, Power, Text by Timothy Neale,Crystal McKinnon,Eve Vincent Pdf

History, Power, Text: Cultural Studies and Indigenous Studies is a collection of essays on Indigenous themes published between 1996 and 2013 in the journal known first as UTS Review and now as Cultural Studies Review. This journal opened up a space for new kinds of politics, new styles of writing and new modes of interdisciplinary engagement. History, Power, Text highlights the significance of just one of the exciting interdisciplinary spaces, or meeting points, the journal enabled. ‘Indigenous cultural studies’ is our name for the intersection of cultural studies and Indigenous studies showcased here. This volume republishes key works by academics and writers Katelyn Barney, Jennifer Biddle, Tony Birch, Wendy Brady, Gillian Cowlishaw, Robyn Ferrell, Bronwyn Fredericks, Heather Goodall, Tess Lea, Erin Manning, Richard Martin, Aileen Moreton-Robinson, Stephen Muecke, Alison Ravenscroft, Deborah Bird Rose, Lisa Slater, Sonia Smallacombe, Rebe Taylor, Penny van Toorn, Eve Vincent, Irene Watson and Virginia Watson—many of whom have taken this opportunity to write reflections on their work—as well as interviews between Christine Nicholls and painter Kathleen Petyarre, and Anne Brewster and author Kim Scott. The book also features new essays by Birch, Moreton-Robinson and Crystal McKinnon, and a roundtable discussion with former and current journal editors Chris Healy, Stephen Muecke and Katrina Schlunke.

Author : Len Beadell
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 237 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Australia, Central
ISBN : 1864367865

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Outback Highways by Len Beadell Pdf

The Gunbarrel Highway story, and many more ..Len Beadell 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. Drawn from his best selling books, these stories sparkle with humour and paint a fascinating picture of the hard work, the bush characters and the rollicking adventures that were all part of Len Beadell's rich experience.

Author : NA NA
Publisher : Springer
Page : 1555 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2016-03-05
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781349036509

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Writers Directory by NA NA Pdf

Author : Jenny Walker
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2022-12-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000807578

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The Arabian Desert in English Travel Writing Since 1950 by Jenny Walker Pdf

Broadly this book is about the Arabian desert as the locus of exploration by a long tradition of British travellers that includes T. E. Lawrence and Wilfred Thesiger; more specifically, it is about those who, since 1950, have followed in their literary footsteps. In analysing modern works covering a land greater than the sum of its geographical parts, the discussion identifies outmoded tropes that continue to impinge upon the perception of the Middle East today while recognising that the laboured binaries of “East and West”, “desert and sown”, “noble and savage” have outrun their course. Where, however, only a barren legacy of latent Orientalism may have been expected, the author finds instead a rich seam of writing that exhibits diversity of purpose and insight contributing to contemporary discussions on travel and tourism, intercultural representation, and environmental awareness. By addressing a lack of scholarly attention towards recent additions to the genre, this study illustrates for the benefit of students of travel literature, or indeed anyone interested in “Arabia”, how desert writing, under the emerging configurations of globalisation, postcolonialism, and ecocriticism, acts as a microcosm of the kinds of ethical and emotional dilemmas confronting today’s travel writers in the world’s most extreme regions.

Author : David Bainbridge
Publisher : White Lion Publishing
Page : 259 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2020-06-02
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780711252264

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How Zoologists Organize Things by David Bainbridge Pdf

Humankind’s fascination with the animal kingdom began as a matter of survival – differentiating the edible from the toxic, the ferocious from the tractable. Since then, our compulsion to catalogue wildlife has played a key role in growing our understanding of the planet and ourselves, inspiring religious beliefs and evolving scientific theories. The book unveils wild truths and even wilder myths about animals, as perpetuated by zoologists – revealing how much more there is to learn, and unlearn. Animals were among the first subjects ever drawn by humans. Long before Darwin or Watson and Crick, our ancestors studied the visual similarities and differences between the creatures which inhabit the Earth alongside us. Early savants could sense there was an order, a scheme, which unified all life. The schemes they formulated often tell us as much about ourselves as they do about the animals depicted, highlighting obsessions, fears, revelations and hopes. The human quest to classify living beings has left us with a rich artistic legacy in four great stages—the folklore and religiosity of the ancient and Medieval world; the naturalistic cataloging of the Enlightenment; the evolutionary trees and maps of the nineteenth century; and the modern, computer-hued classificatory labyrinth. The aim of this book is to tell the story of our systematization of the beasts. These charts of the zoological world parallel prevailing artistic trends and scientific discoveries, woven together with philosophical threads that run throughout: animal life as parable, a tree, a maze, a terra incognita, a mirror upon ourselves.

Author : Peter Morton
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 616 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Australia
ISBN : UVA:X001664847

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Fire Across the Desert by Peter Morton Pdf

Author : Elizabeth Tynan
Publisher : Casemate Publishers
Page : 369 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2018-07-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781526727589

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Atomic Thunder by Elizabeth Tynan Pdf

An in-depth account of Great Britain’s atomic testing efforts in South Australia in the 1950s and ’60s, and its effects. British nuclear testing took place at Maralinga, South Australia, between 1956 and 1963, after Australian Prime Minister Robert Menzies had handed over 3,200 square kilometres of open desert to the British Government, without informing his own people. The atomic weapons test series wreaked havoc on Indigenous communities and turned the land into a radioactive wasteland. How did it come to pass that a democracy such as Australia suddenly found itself hosting another country’s nuclear program? And why has it continued to be shrouded in mystery, even decades after the atomic thunder clouds stopped rolling across the South Australian test site? In this meticulously researched and shocking work, journalist and academic Elizabeth Tynan reveals the truth of what really happened at Maralinga and the devastating consequences of what took place there, not to mention the mess that was left behind. Praise for Atomic Thunder “Compulsive reading? Make that compulsory. This is a brilliant book.” —Philip Adams

Author : Graeme Ussing,Jo Ussing
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2019-03-10
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1875608435

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The Beadell Roads by Graeme Ussing,Jo Ussing Pdf

The roads built by Len Beadell and the Gunbarrel Road Construction Party

Author : Gerald Alfred Wilkes
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : STANFORD:36105026092424

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A Dictionary of Australian Colloquialisms by Gerald Alfred Wilkes Pdf

Now available in a fourth, revised, and greatly expanded edition, A Dictionary of Australian Colloquialisms records the ingenuity of the Australian vernacular and provides a unique insight into Australian life and culture. This well-known dictionary, first published in 1978, offers the first and the most recent colloquial coinages. Words and idioms are drawn from a wide range of historical and contemporary sources--chiefly newspapers, magazines and novels--and each entry is shown in context, with origins and derivations.

Author : Red Nomad Oz,Marion Halliday
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Australia
ISBN : 1741174627

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Aussie Loos with Views! by Red Nomad Oz,Marion Halliday Pdf

A collection of Australian loos with great views

Author : Len Beadell
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Australia, Central
ISBN : 1864367180

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Beating about the Bush by Len Beadell Pdf

When your grader breaks down in the middle of the desert, there's only one thing you can do - attach it to your bulldozer and tow it back to civilisation.When your grader breaks down in the middle of the desert, there's only one thing you can do - attach it to your bulldozer and tow it back to civilisation. For Len Beadell's team, that meant a journey of 800 kilometres at three kilometres an hour - the longest towing operation ever in the history of Central Australia. The party hitched up their 'train' and set off back along the road they had just built. But while they were all set for a long and arduous journey, the last thing they expected was for their ration truck to melt. This had its disadvantages but was the best entertainment they'd had for a year!

Author : Danielle Clode
Publisher : Danielle Clode
Page : 72 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2009-01-01
Category : Animals, Fossil
ISBN : 0980381320

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Prehistoric Giants by Danielle Clode Pdf

Step back to a time when giant goannas and marsupial lions stalked the Australian bush. Imagine herds of two-tonne Diprotodon roaming the plains, and flocks of flightless ducks bigger than emus striding across the shallow inland sea.

Author : Tim Borthwick
Publisher : HarperCollins Australia
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2017-08-01
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781460708408

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Waltzing Australia by Tim Borthwick Pdf

A unique collection of original Australian bush ballads and the stories that inspired them – in the tradition of Banjo Paterson and Henry Lawson. WALTZING AUSTRALIA is a wonderful celebration of the Australian bush and the people who live there, written by a gifted storyteller who's spent much of his life working on the land. Featuring fifty poems and stories that tell of the heartbreak, humour and hard yakka that come with living and working in the bush – many of which were written on long days droving sheep and cattle, on the back of a motorbike, or by the fading light in camp hundreds of miles from anywhere. These evocative bush verses and the tales behind them shine light on characters and events from Australia's pioneering past as well as embracing Tim's own experiences in the outback.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1012 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1988-09
Category : Antiquarian booksellers
ISBN : UOM:39015016439641

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AB Bookman's Weekly by Anonim Pdf