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Australian Traditional Bush Crafts. Australian Traditional Bush Crafts is crammed with the craft lore of the rugged European pioneers and native aborigines that people the bush country of northern Australia. Living in a wilderness where even nails may be a building luxury, they have each become naive architects, designers, and engineers – solving basic problems of survival and comfort ingeniously with only the sparse materials at hand. In clear, practical language and more than 700 explicit drawings, Ron Edwards surveys the uniquely Australian way of living on the land. As ways of making the most of very little, the bushmen’s common sense inventions can be used by farmer, camper, craftsperson and anyone else who find satisfaction in doing things for himself
Softcover ISBN 0805205608.