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.
Stories of survival - the coffee royal affair
Stories of survival - the cannibal convict
Stories of survival - the great misadventure
Stories of survival - the best of them all
Stories of survival - the dutch settlement
Stories of survival - gold fever
Stories of survival - the passionate prussian
Stories of survival - into the vilest country
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Arnhem land
The wet in port keats
Desert
Prince regent gorge
Rainforest
Northern queensland coastline
Doomadgee
Aurukun
Wet season
East to west
Kimberley
Top end
Wildman
Coastal story
Desert story
The coffee royal affair
The cannibal convict
The great misadventure
The best of them all
The dutch settlement
Gold fever
The passionate prussian
Into the vilest country
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