Like his contemporary, Len Beadell, John Showers also in a lesser way opened up a part of the outback by planning and directing the building of the initial roads from Woomera to Olympic Dam and on to Lake Eyre.
John Showers first went to Roxby Downs when it was a lonely, isolated sheep station a long day's drive on rough bush tracks from Port Augusta and civilisation. Thirty years later, as a civil engineer with Western Mining Corporation, he returned and was intimately involved in establishing the infrastructure for the development of the Olympic Dam uranium mine and the new township of Roxby Downs. Return to Roxby Downs covers his participation in both these periods.
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Like his contemporary, Len Beadell, John Showers also in a lesser way opened up a part of the outback by planning and directing the building of the initial roads from Woomera to Olympic Dam and on to Lake Eyre.
ISBN 9780646382180
CATEGORY Biography/Autobiography/True Stories
IMAGES
PAGE COUNT 198
DIMENSIONS 235 x 150 mm