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''Bushcraft'' is a survival television series hosted by
Ray Mears
Raymond Paul Mears (born 7 February 1964) is a British woodsman, instructor, businessman, author and TV presenter. His TV appearances cover bushcraft and survival techniques. He is best known for the TV series '' Ray Mears' Bushcraft'', '' Ra ...
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in United Kingdom, it also shown on
Discovery Channel in the United States,
Canada
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India
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Italy
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Brazil
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New Zealand
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Australia,
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Norway
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Sweden, The
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Romania
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Russia
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. Following on from ''
Extreme Survival'', ''Bushcraft'' was first shown in 2004, and ended in 2005.
Episodes
Series 1
# "Aboriginal Britain": Mears is based in
Great Britain
Great Britain is an island in the North Atlantic Ocean off the northwest coast of continental Europe. With an area of , it is the largest of the British Isles, the largest European island and the ninth-largest island in the world. It i ...
, where he shows how
Stone Age hunter-gatherers used the resources around them to feed and clothe themselves.
# "Jungle Camp": Mears sets up a jungle camp in the
Amazon rainforest close to a native village, and sees how the
Yekuana live in harmony with their environment. He encounters
poison dart frogs and climbs into the forest canopy to gain a different perspective on the surroundings. He also offers an insight into the people who inhabit the dense tropical environment
# "Jungle Trek": Mears encounters huge waterfalls, clouds of butterflies on a trek through the Amazon jungle in the shadow of flat-topped mountain formations called
tepui
A tepui , or tepuy (), is a table-top mountain or mesa found in South America, especially in Venezuela and western Guyana. The word tepui means "house of the gods" in the native tongue of the Pemon, the indigenous people who inhabit the Gran S ...
s. He then journeys to the huge rock outcrops which inspired ''
The Land That Time Forgot'' and ''
The Lost World''.
# "Africa Camp": Mears makes a return visit to northern
Tanzania
Tanzania (; ), officially the United Republic of Tanzania ( sw, Jamhuri ya Muungano wa Tanzania), is a country in East Africa within the African Great Lakes region. It borders Uganda to the north; Kenya to the northeast; Comoro Islands ...
to spend some more time with the
Hadza, sharing a love of bows, tracking and the landscape with true hunter-gatherers whose way of life demonstrates a profound connection to the natural world. This episode was withdrawn by the BBC when the series was repeated in 2019.
# "Africa Safari": Mears fulfils a childhood dream by experiencing a true
safari,
Maasai Maasai may refer to:
* Maasai people
*Maasai language
* Maasai mythology
* MAASAI (band)
See also
* Masai (disambiguation)
* Massai
Massai (also known as: Masai, Massey, Massi, Mah–sii, Massa, Wasse, Wassil or by the nickname "Big Foot" Mas ...
-style. He teams up with a Maasai warrior in Tanzania and embarks on a walking safari. As they travel through a valley inhabited by wild animals, he spots a variety of useful plants and ends the day sleeping under the stars.
Series 2
# "Birch Bark Canoe": As far as Mears is concerned the
birch bark
Birch bark or birchbark is the bark of several Eurasian and North American birch trees of the genus ''Betula''.
The strong and water-resistant cardboard-like bark can be easily cut, bent, and sewn, which has made it a valuable building, craftin ...
canoe is the best vessel man has ever created. He has always wanted to construct one and in this programme he works with
Algonquin
Algonquin or Algonquian—and the variation Algonki(a)n—may refer to:
Languages and peoples
*Algonquian languages, a large subfamily of Native American languages in a wide swath of eastern North America from Canada to Virginia
**Algonquin la ...
canoe maker Pinock Smith, one of the few people left who know how to craft them using traditional methods.
# "Canoe Journey": In Mears' view, the canoe is the most natural way to travel and to get close to wild places. To demonstrate this, he paddles down the
Missinaibi River
The Missinaibi River is a river in northern Ontario, Canada, which flows northeast from Missinaibi Lake, north of Chapleau, and empties into the Moose River, which drains into James Bay. This river (including Missinaibi Lake and Moose River t ...
, a river as unspoilt today as it was three hundred years ago when it was the essential route for the
fur trade canoes.
# "American
Prairie
Prairies are ecosystems considered part of the temperate grasslands, savannas, and shrublands biome by ecologists, based on similar temperate climates, moderate rainfall, and a composition of grasses, herbs, and shrubs, rather than trees, as the ...
s": Mears takes a journey into America's past as he travels in the footsteps of
Jim Bridger
James Felix "Jim" Bridger (March 17, 1804 – July 17, 1881) was an American mountain man, trapper, Army scout, and wilderness guide who explored and trapped in the Western United States in the first half of the 19th century. He was known as Old ...
, 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 ancient skills of
bushcraft
Bushcraft is the use and practice of skills, thereby acquiring and developing knowledge and understanding, in order to survive and thrive in a natural environment.
Bushcraft skills provide for the basic physiological necessities for human li ...
are alive and well and in daily use is Sweden. Mears sees how pine tar is made and used on traditional skis before spending time with the
Sami people in the north where he takes a
dog sled journey into the snowy wastes.
# "Four Seasons": Mears shows the viewer how bushcraft brings a new perspective on the countryside and its changing seasons. He points out the foods and plants that are available, from pig nuts to lime leaves. He observes wild
badger
Badgers are short-legged omnivores in the family Mustelidae (which also includes the otters, wolverines, martens, minks, polecats, weasels, and ferrets). Badgers are a polyphyletic rather than a natural taxonomic grouping, being united by ...
s and
deer
Deer or true deer are hoofed ruminant mammals forming the family Cervidae. The two main groups of deer are the Cervinae, including the muntjac, the elk (wapiti), the red deer, and the fallow deer; and the Capreolinae, including the re ...
and explains his interest in sleeping outdoors whenever he can.
See also
*''
World of Survival''
*''
Extreme Survival''
*''
Ray Mears Goes Walkabout''
*''
Ray Mears' Northern Wilderness''
References
External links
*
RayMears.com*
{{Ray Mears
2004 British television series debuts
2005 British television series endings
BBC Television shows
Works about survival skills