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As well as his tv and writing work, ray founded woodlore, school of wilderness bushcraft, in 1983, and has been teaching his unique bushcraft skills there for. Apr 10, 2006 in bushcraft survival ray mears travels to some of the most remote and beautiful wildernesses in the world, and experiences first hand the survival techniques of different indigenous cultures. The content is a the same as seen on his television series. In bushcraft survival ray mears travels to some of the most remote and beautiful wildernesses in the world, and experiences first hand the survival techniques of different indigenous cultures. Bushcraft survival by ray mears hardback, 2005 for sale. Ray mears bushcraft courses and woodlore school of wilderness bushcraft. He is best known for the tv series ray mears bushcraft, ray mears world of survival, extreme survival, survival with ray mears, wild britain with ray mears and ray mears goes walkabout. Apr 10, 2006 buy bushcraft survival tv tie in ed by mears, ray isbn. The series airs on the bbc in united kingdom, it also shown on discovery channel in the united states, canada, india, italy, brazil, new zealand, australia, czech republic, norway, sweden, the netherlands, romania and russia.
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