Features five episodes from the second series of the popular survival programme. In 'Birch Bark Canoe' Ray learns and demonstrates how to craft a birch bark canoe. Also features:... more
Sharpening an axe at camp. 2. Looking after your axe. 3. Choosing and using an axe. 4. Splitting wood with a saw. 5. How to light a fire. 6. Safe water. 7. The bir...
ever created. Ray has always wanted to construct one and in this programme he works with Algonquin canoe maker Pinock Smith, one of the few people left who know how to craft them using traditional methods.Canoe JourneyThe canoe is the most natural way to travel and to get close to wild places. Ray paddles down the Missinaibi River, a river as unspoilt today as it was three hundred years ago when it was the essential route for the fur trade canoes.AmericaRay 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 a buffalo skin and spends time with the Shoshone.SwedenOne country where the ancient skills of Bushcraft are alive and well and in daily use is Sweden. Ray 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 SeasonsRay shows us how Bushcraft brings a new perspective to our countryside and its changing seasons. He points out the foods and plants that are available, from pig nuts to lime leaves. He shows us the best way to see badger and deer and tells us why he likes to sleep out whenever he can - whatever time of year.
Mears World Of Survival' 'Ray Mears Extreme Survival' and 'Trips Money Can't Buy' with Ewan McGregor. Although most of us know Ray as the World greatest Survival Expert he prefers to call his subject 'Bushcraft'. So what is Bushcraft? Ray explains: "For most of my life I've been studying a subject called Bushcraft - the knowledge of the natural world I carry with me in my mind and in my muscles. But it's about much more than survival. Bushcraft is a treasure trove of wisdom which enables us to feel a real kinship with the landscape". In this new series join Ray to discover how our ancestors lived from the land and some of Ray's indigenous friends from overseas. Ray Mears is a God!
A review by crysis on Ray Mears - Bushcraft Survival - Series 2 (DVD) April 2nd, 2007
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In the second season of bushcraft survivel Ray Mears go to America, Sweden and explores the beautiful landscapes and animals. He displayes some amazing bushcraft skills on and of water, shows you some things you need to know to survive, e.g. start a fire with sticks. He also journey's into the past of American, learning how the people survived. In Sweden he learns how the local people used to make skis, extracts pine tar from trees and goes out into the snowy desert. Season two is one of the best survival documentaries ever made not only teaching you how to survive but also showing the people who had to endevour these hostile lands. With the DVD comes 60 minutes of extra footage on things like how to light a fire and sharpening an axe. In short this is a must have DVD if you love nature.
Features five episodes from the second series of the popular survival programme. In 'Birch Bark Canoe' Ray learns and demonstrates how to craft a birch bark canoe. Also features: 'Canoe Journey', 'America', 'Sweden' and 'Four Seasons'.
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