Season 1
8 episodes · 1988
1Arnhem Land
Major Les Hiddins of the Australian Army explores Arnhem Land, northern Australia, and learns Aboriginal survival methods. He's on a mission to record the many bush foods and medicines of northern Australia. Les travels to the closed Indigenous community of Ngukurr, where locals share some remarkable bush tucker secrets.
2The Wet in Port Keats
Surviving the rainy season in Australia's Northern Territory.
3Desert
Les Hiddins travels through some of the most arid desert country in search of food and water.
4Prince Regent Gorge
Les Hiddins looks for South Australian rock paintings using the journals of a 19th-century governor.
5Rainforest
The Aussie survivalist discovers the secrets of the rainforests in Bloomfield, Queensland.
6Northern Queensland Coastline
Les Hiddins travels to the west coast of Cape York where the first known sighting of Australia took place by Europeans.
7Doomadgee
Crash survivors could have prevented starvation. In this episode, Les Hiddins is in the Gulf Country of Queensland around Doomadgee. In 1942, an American bomber crashed not far from here. Les relives the extraordinary story of the crash's survivors as he moves through the region. Those American airmen, like the majority of Australians, had no knowledge of native bush food or survival.
8Aurukunfinale
Les Hiddins joins a group of soldiers on an expedition into the Bush to learn first-hand about the survival techniques of Aborigines
