1978 Routledge & Keegan Paul. UK Printing. Minor wear to cover. Text clean. Pages starting to yellow at edges; otherwise clean and complete. Binding tight. Additional Details ------------------------------ Product description: First published 1950. This revised and updated edition of Australian Bushcraft covers all aspects of survival and camping activity: making ropes and cords building huts: campcraft: finding food and water, maps knots - virtually every technique required to stay alive in the bush. Australian Bushcraft explains how to make use of natural materials for both survival and pleasure. It describes many of the skills used by primitive man, and adds to these the skills necessary for survival today. Richard Graves, who died in 1971, realised that a knowledge of bushcraft could save lives in the Second World War He initiated and led the Australian Jungle Rescue Detachment, which was assigned to the Far East American Air Force. This detachment of sixty specially selected AIF soldiers successfully carried out more than three hundred rescue missions, most of which were in enemy territory, without failure of a mission or loss of a man. The material in this book was originally written at that time.