From the Woodlore email....
The DVD box-set containing the second five programmes of Ray's latest television series 'Bushcraft Survival' will be available from the 8th June. Pre-orders are now being taken via Woodlore website. More information on the DVD can be found online here:
http://www.raymears.com/shop_item_desc.cfm?id=398&itemType=DVDs
DVD CONTENTS
Additional footage has been filmed especially for the Bushcraft enthusiast. Ray has included: sharpening an axe at camp, looking after your axe, choosing and using an axe, splitting wood with a saw, how to light a fire, prepare safe water, using a birch bark canoe, making a container from birch bark, making a matchbox from birch bark, making a container from cedar, making a container from ash bark and also contains information on the snakes found on the lowland heaths of the UK.
The DVD will cover the following programmes:
BIRCH BARK CANOE Ray with Algonquin canoe maker Pinock Smith, one of the few people left who know how to craft birch bark canoes using traditional methods.
CANOE JOURNEY The canoe is the most natural way to travel and get close to wild life in 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.
AMERICA - Ray 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 buffalo skin and spends time with the Shoshone.
SWEDEN One country where the acient skills of Bushcraft are alive and in daily use in. Lars joins Ray to share the campfire and disucess some of the Swedish traditions and cook a salmon. He shows how pine tar is made and used on traditional skis before spending time with the Sami people, and Yana sings for us.
FOUR SEASONS Ray comes home to the UK to show us how Bushcraft brings a new perspective to our countryside and its changing seasons.
