Australian Exploration from N & A Smiles

Sydney: Sydney: Weldon Publishing 1990 Trade Paperback Reprint , 1990 GD+ A used but firm copy. Bush Bashers tells the story of Beadell's second road across Australia, which was driven 1600 kilometres from east to west, through the heart of the Great Victoria Desert. Construction took years, as the road was driven through the almost impenetrable mulga scrub and… Read more about this item

Sydney: Sydney: Weldon Publishing 1990 Trade Paperback Reprint , 1990 GD+ A used but firm copy. In Beating About the Bush, Len Beadell's grader has broken down in the middle of the desert, resulting in a journey of 800 kilometres at three kilometres an hour, the longest towing operation ever in the history of Central Australia, but while they… Read more about this item

Sydney: Sydney: Weldon Publishing 1990 Trade Paperback Reprint , 1990 GD+ A used but firm copy. Too Long in the Bush is the story of how, from 1956 to 1958, Len Beadell and his team made the first road across Central Australia from east to west. On the way, he surveyed and built the Giles Meteorological Station and aerodrome… Read more about this item

Perth: Victoria Park: Hesperian Press 1981 Facsimile Edition First Thus, 1981 Fine. Wrap-around cover art by Leone Ferrier.

Adelaide: Adelaide: Rigby Limited (Seal Books 01669) 1969 First Seal Books Paperback Printing, 1969 Near Fine. Light edgewear, light crease adjacent to spine, illustrated with numerous monochrome plates. A classic of Australian exploration, describing the building of the Gunbarrel Highway across the Gibson Desert by Len Beadell's Gunbarrel Road Construction Party from 1955-1958. Signed and Inscribed by the Author.

Sydney: Sydney: Hachette 2015 First Trade Paperback Printing, 2015 Near Fine

London: Jonathan Cape 1937 First British Edition, Second Impression cr.8vo 237pp , 1937 Near Fine original tan cloth, occasional mild foxing, heavier at edges, otherwise a solid copy, very clean throughout, in Good edgeworn and slightly chipped unclipped DW. A very attractive copy of a scarce edition.

Sydney: Edwards & Shaw 1962 8vo 232pp ill., 1962 Near Fine original cloth boards, very light soiling to boards, otherwise a very attractive copy, Fine throughout. Map end-papers illustrating a plan for the intended Town of Australind and the Kimberley Division. Illustrations include Natives along Canning Stock Route.

Sydney: Angus & Robertson 1961 Fifth Printing, 1961 Good reading copy. Contains extracts from a number of pioneering works, dating from 1837 to 1954.

Sydney: Sydney: Weldon Publishing/New Holland Publishers; Lansdowne Publishing 1990-2000 Trade Paperback Reprint ISBN 1-86302-405-0, 1990 VG to Near Fine matching set, despite different imprints. The story of Len Beadell's Gunbarrel Road Construction Party as they surveyed and built their "highways" across the deserts of Central Australia.

Adelaide: Adelaide: Corkwood Press 1999-2003 Special Editions 6 vols 8vo, 1999 Very Fine leather-bound matching set of all six of Len Beadell's often humorous autobiographical writings detailing his pioneering road-building projects throughout the Central Australian deserts on behalf of the Woomera Rocket Range. Each volume is beautifully bound in kangaroo leather, with gilt titles, gilt maps to covers, map end-papers,… Read more about this item

Alice Springs: Max Cartwright 1994 First Edition 8vo vii,110pp, 1994 VG+ original illustrated card wrappers, slightly rubbed, internally fine. Page 110 is pasted onto verso of rear cover & contains the article on the Settlement at Docker River referred to on page 98 - missing from some copies. Scarce.

Melbourne: State Library of Victoria 1995 First Edition Trade Paperback xxx,194pp ill. ISBN 0-724-10007-8, 1995 Very Fine original illustrated self-wrappers, illustrated with 16 pages of b&w plates, plus 3 maps. Signed on title page by Kim Lockwood. John McKinlay was the first European to lead a team acrosss the Australian continent from the south coast to the north and return… Read more about this item

Adelaide: Adelaide: Corkwood Press 1999 Limited Facsimile Edition 8vo 207pp + maps, 1999 Very Fine original blue leather, gilt titles, with 2 large folded maps printed on high quality paper in matching slip-case. This edition is an accurate facsimile of the original edition of 1893, produced by arrangement with the Royal Geographical Society of South Australia. The maps are the… Read more about this item

Adelaide: Rigby (Seal Books 04770) 1970 First Paperback Edition ISBN: 0-85179-061-5, 1970 VG+