{"product_id":"crossing-dead-heart-simpson-desert-ct-madigan-hc-1946-exploration-australia","title":"Crossing Dead Heart Simpson Desert CT Madigan HC 1946 Exploration Australia","description":"\u003cp style=\"margin: 0px 0px 1.3em; padding: 0px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Arial, sans-serif;\"\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eThis book is a classic narrative of modern exploration; a story of adventure, enterprise and patient scientific exploration, illustrated by photographs taken on the expedition.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp style=\"margin: 0px 0px 1.3em; padding: 0px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Arial, sans-serif;\"\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eThe Simpson is a sand-ridge desert extending 200 miles (322 km) west to east, the ridges running parallel from north to south at roughly quarter-mile (0.4 km) intervals, some reaching as high as 100 feet (30 m). Madigan planned a ground crossing in the winter of 1939. A party of nine, including a biologist, a botanist, a photographer and a radio operator, with nineteen camels, made the exhausting crossing from Andado station in the Northern Territory to Birdsville in twenty-five days. It verified Madigan's previous conclusions that the area was a wasteland. This last classic Australian exploration adventure pioneered the use of mobile radio communication; national broadcasts were made through the Australian Broadcasting Commission from desert camps. The scientific results were published and also a popular accound, Crossing the Dead Heart (Melbourne, 1946). He saw the 'Dead Heart' as a land of everlasting sand-ridges and salt-encrusted clay-pans; while his conclusions seemed correct then, within twenty years the area was criss-crossed by petroleum explorers.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Pearl Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46320436904133,"sku":"330725139","price":59.97,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0685\/7660\/8453\/files\/57_7e2cbbb7-7cda-4a8b-a05c-ee11c9cad4f7.png?v=1780822077","url":"https:\/\/pearlpress.com.au\/products\/crossing-dead-heart-simpson-desert-ct-madigan-hc-1946-exploration-australia","provider":"Pearl Press","version":"1.0","type":"link"}