BUSHCRAFT SURVIVAL. By Ray Mears.

2005 1st edition. 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.