BUSHCRAFT SURVIVAL. By Ray Mears.

.# (2005) later reprint. 4to (205 x 250mm). Pp256. Colour photographs by the author throughout. Green boards, spine titled in gilt.

.# Ray Mears learns the living and survival skills of natives of the Amazon, Venezuela, Lapland, East Africa and British Columbia. Includes a chapter detailing the construction of a North American birchbark canoe - the canoe in the accompanying television series went wrong while the canoe in the book is built successfully from the beginning. Many excellent photographs by the author. Chapters include: Aboriginal Britain; The Yekuna, river people of the Amazon; The lost world of the Pemon; Camping with the Hadza; Masai safari; The making of the Goosefeather; Canoeing down the Missinaibi; On the trail of the mountain men; Sweden, land of living bushcraft; Four seasons.