'Too Long in the Bush' is 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, 1500 kilometers from the Alice Springs road to Carnegie homestead 650 kilometers north of Kalgoorlie. ON the way he surveyed and built the Giles Meterological Station and aerodrome before moving on to skirt the edge of the infamous Gibson Desert. Beadell, using astronomical observations, would survey up to 400 kilometers of the projected road entirely alone, often in country then known only to small groups of Aborigines. Returning to his construction team, he would supervise operations as the road was paused slowly forward through the heat and dust, over sandhill and desert, rounding the desolate salt lakes. In the telling of their adventures, Beadell's happy nature keeps the tale bubbling along with humorous touches that make this remarkable journey on the every armchair traveller will enjoy.
