Bluebird and the Dead Lake : The Classic Account of How Donald Campbell Broke the World Land Speed Record by Richard Williams and John Pearson (2013, Trade Paperback)
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. 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.