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The The Bluebird and the Dead Lake (Paperback, Re-Issue)
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The The Bluebird and the Dead Lake (Paperback, Re-Issue)
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List price R303
Loot Price R238
Discovery Miles 2 380
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In 1964, in Australia's remote outback, on the dazzling saltpan of
Lake Eyre, Donald Campbell set out to drive his Bluebird car at
over 400 miles an hour - faster than any man in history. Things
went wrong from the start: unseasonal rains, a sodden lake bed in
which every high-speed run slewed dangerously, money running
short...even an Aboriginal curse. WIth death shimmering on the
horizon before him, the lonely Campbell tried to hold his nerve
until he broke the record. Campbell would lose his life eventually
on Coniston Water, with over thirty years passing before his body
was recovered in 2001, but this strangest - and greatest - of all
his world record attempts was witnessed by a young reporter. John
Pearson's classic book about Donald Campbell is an extraordinarily
compelling and moving portrait of a modern tragic hero, fighting a
battle with inhospitable elements and the outer limits of
technology - and, above all, with himself.
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