Ray Mears Bushcraft - Britain - America - Sweden

And a couple of other places as well. And I do have to say, a pleasant way to while away a couple of hours on a Sunday afternoon. Before heading off that is, to Talladega for some, buggity buggity buggity, let's go racing boys. Buggity

I do like Ray Mears, he's quiet and unpretentious and he 'does' there's none of the ''Here's one I made earlier'' kind of thing.

Episodes 1 of the various programs, all in HD courtesy of, and a tip of the hat to, Ritchie Powell.

The Barren Lands, not in HD.




Ray Mears - Bushcraft Survival Series 1 - ABORIGINAL BRITAIN
Ray shows how our ancestors used the resources around them to feed and clothe themselves.




Ray Mears - Bushcraft Survival Series 2 - AMERICA - Ray takes a journey into America's past as he travels in the footsteps of Jim Bridger, one of the mountain men who opened up the route to the Pacific Coast of America. Ray makes a bull boat using willow and buffalo skin and spends time with the Shoshone.



SWEDEN One country where the acient skills of bushcraft are alive and in daily use. Lars Falt joins Ray by the campfire to discuss some of the Swedish traditions and cook a salmon. He shows how pine tar is made and used on traditional skis before spending time with the Sami people and Swedish singer Yana.



RAY MEARS WILD FOOD - COAST - Ray finds out just what Britain's coast had to offer our ancestors, as he continues to explore the wild food that tickled the taste buds of Stone Age man. The coastline of Stone Age Britain was rather different than it is today, as Britain was yet to become an island.



RAY MEARS WILD FOOD - Australia - Ray travels to the other side of the planet to hear from Australian Aboriginals about what food means to a hunter-gatherer and the role it plays in their culture as well as their society. Along with many other discoveries, the trip sees Ray sample that most iconic of 'bush tucker' - the witchetty grub, a huge maggot that lives in the roots of the witchetty bush.




The Barren Lands: Ray Mears
Ray learns the finer points of fishing in Labrador, Canada, and visits the native Innu people at a winter hunting camp where porcupine figures high on the menu and the brains of unfortunate caribou are used to tan their hides for buckskin