My Outdoor Life
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| Rating | : | 4.33 (738 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1444778218 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 384 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2018-02-20 |
| Language | : | English |
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Outstanding read ! Outstanding read by my personal favorite outdoorsman. Would recommend this bio to anyone interested in knowing how Mr, Ray Mears grew up learning & discovering his passion for the outdoors & all the resources it can provide.. P8 said Good insight into the life of Ray Mears. I enjoyed reading about how and why Ray got to be one of the best bushcraft and outdoor specialists in the world. Some of the chapters, like his first walking trip in Africa and tracking Raoul Moat were very good, others were less than spellbinding, especially if you are already familiar with his TV series'. Still, it was an enjoyable . I have watched and enjoyed Ray Mears' TV programmes for many years I have watched and enjoyed Ray Mears' TV programmes for many years, so I took the chance to know more about the man in front of the camera. His story is informative and personal as he details his life - learning and teaching about woodlore, living in traditional societies, finding and losing and finding love, nearly losing his life. It
Born in 1964, Ray Mears has travelled the world studying and teaching the art of survival. He has appeared extensively in TV programmes such as Bushcraft Survival , The Real Heroes of Telemark , Wild Food , and Ray Mears Goes Walkabout. . As well as his TV and writing work, Ray founded Woodlore, School of Wilderness Bushcraft, in 1983, and has been teaching his unique bushcraft s
Long may he survive.Daily Mail. MovinggrippingThe rather old-fashioned qualities he admires in others: fortitude, understatedness, loyalty, above all stoicism, are the same ones we admire in him
He is a private individual who shuns publicity whenever possible and would prefer to let his many skills tell their own tale - until now.In MY OUTDOOR LIFE, Ray tells of his childhood and the formative years when he first developed a passion for both bushcraft and the martial arts skills that are central to his life. Ray Mears is a household name through his television series Tracks, World of Survival, Bushcraft Survival, The Real Heroes of Telemark and many more. But his life is so much more than a tale of derring-do. MY OUTDOOR LIFE gives us all a chance to share a life-story as rich and as inspirational as a walk in woods with the man himself, Ray Mears.. Just a year later, he had to face the death of his first wife Rachel. The book conveys the many sides of Ray Mears, taking us up to the present day - including the previously untold story of his involvement in the man-hunt for murderer Raoul Moat. Having travelled the world several times over, he is no stranger to risk and has had more than his fair share of dangerous and life-threatening encounters to share with his readers. Shortly after he returned to England having narrowly survived a serious helicopter crash,