Bulldozer. The War Role of the Department of Main Roads, New South Wales
Sydney, Frank Johnson, 1945.
Octavo, 261 pages with 5 maps and 24 plates.
Colour-pictorial wrappers tanned and slightly worn and creased, with a couple of tiny splits; a few minor signs of age and handling; a very good copy.
A history of the Department of Main Roads' work across northern Australia during the Second World War (including the Alice Springs to Darwin section of the Stuart Highway and the Ipswich-Charters Towers Inland Defence Road), as well as the construction of airfields on Norfolk Island and New Caledonia. Michael Terry (1899-1981), the 'last explorer', is much better known for his accounts of his expeditions and adventures in Central Australia. He 'claimed to have led in 1923-35 fourteen trips in Central Australia, many of which were privately financed by mining companies undertaking exploration', and published 'Across Unknown Australia' (1925), 'Through a Land of Promise' (1927), 'Hidden Wealth and Hiding People' (1931), and 'Untold Miles' (1932).
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