Bluebird and the Dead Lake: How Donald Campbell Broke the World Land Speed Record - John Pearson

Bluebird and the Dead Lake: How Donald Campbell Broke the World Land Speed Record

Pearson, John

Published by Aurum Press, 2002

In 1964 in Australias remote outback, on the dazzling saltpan of Lake Eyre, Donald Campbell set out to drive his Bluebird car at over 400 miles an hourfaster than any man in history. Things went wrong from the unseasonable rains, a sodden lake bed in which every high-speed run slewed dangerously, money running shorteven an Aboriginal curse. With death shimmering on the horizon, the lonely Campbell tried to hold his nerve until he broke the record. Campbell would eventually lose his life racing his Bluebird boat on Coniston Water in England, with more than 30 years passing before his body was recovered in 2001, but this strangestand greatestof all his world-record attempts was witnessed by a young reporter. John Pearsons book about Donald Campbell is an extraordinarily compelling portrait of a modern tragic hero, fighting a battle with the inhospitable elements and the outer limits of technologyand, above all, with himself.

Binding: Soft cover

Book Condition: Good condition

Edition: 2002

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