Basic Info

First Air: July 31, 1988

Rating: ⭐ 9.0/10 (4 votes)

Status: Ended

Seasons & Episodes

Seasons: 3

Episodes: 23

Last Episode

Name: Into The Vilest Country

Season: 3, Episode: 8

Air Date: 1996-01-28

Runtime: 60 min

Taming the country, Cape York Peninsula. Les Hiddins travels to Cape York Peninsula in a manner that contrasts strongly with the cumbersome expedition led by Edmund Kennedy. He shows how a seemingly inhospitable environment can be used to one's advantage.

Videos

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Bush Tucker Man

1988 3 seasons 23 episodes ⭐ 9.0/10 4 votes

Overview

Major Les Hiddins of the Australian Army was born in Queensland and was always interested in Aboriginal customs and practices and how those practices helped a people survive in a hostile environment for thousands of years. When he joined the Army he developed this interest into a skill and put it to good use. Learning how to survive in the Australian bush and then to teach others the same skills. He wrote various survival manuals for the Australian Armed forces and added survival notes to the back of maps used by pilots flying over the Australian bush. In this series of programmes Les shares that knowledge with us, teaching us some of his survival skills and his great respect for the Aboriginal people that taught him.