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Author : John Pearson
Release : 196?
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Book Synopsis Bluebird and the Dead Lake by : John Pearson
Download or read book Bluebird and the Dead Lake written by John Pearson. This book was released on 196?. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : John Pearson
Release : 2013-08-01
Genre : Sports & Recreation
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Book Synopsis The Bluebird and the Dead Lake by : John Pearson
Download or read book The Bluebird and the Dead Lake written by John Pearson. This book was released on 2013-08-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Author : John Pearson
Release : 1965
Genre : Automobile racing
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Book Synopsis Bluebird and the Dead Lake by : John Pearson
Download or read book Bluebird and the Dead Lake written by John Pearson. This book was released on 1965. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An account (published before death) of the late Donald Campbell's attempts at breaking the water speed records.
Author : John Pearson
Release : 2002
Genre : Automobile racing
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Book Rating : 153/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Bluebird and the Dead Lake by : John Pearson
Download or read book Bluebird and the Dead Lake written by John Pearson. This book was released on 2002. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The definitive eyewitness account of Donald Campbell's 1964 land speed record attempt on Lake Eyre is not only a vibrant portrait of one of the world's most hostile and mesmeric landscapes, but also a compelling psychological drama driven by huge ambition, bitter rivalry, rare tenacity, a rarely glimpsed vulnerability and, above all, death-defying courage. This is the story of one man's obsession.
Author : Arthur Knowles
Release : 2001
Genre : Biography & Autobiography
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Book Rating : 668/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis The Bluebird Years by : Arthur Knowles
Download or read book The Bluebird Years written by Arthur Knowles. This book was released on 2001. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Illustrated throughout, The Bluebird Years details what really happened in the final, fateful crash in which Donald Campbell attempted to break the world water-speed record to 300 mph. New analysis is featured by Ken Norris, Bluebird's Designer.
