Bluebird and the Dead Lake: The Classic Account of How Donald Campbell Broke the World Land Speed Record

by John George Pearson and Richard Williams

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1781311722
• ISBN13: 9781781311721
• Release Date: October 2013
• Publisher: Aurum Press
• Length: 194 Pages
• Weight: 0.48 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.2" x 7.8"