Word: bushcraft
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Moses, like all other serious students of African bushcraft, is a reader of droppings, an analyst and commentator on dung. As he and Olentwala whistled the cattle along, he remarked now and then on the evidence that lay in the forest paths and meadows. Here a Dik-dik passed in the early morning. There a waterbuck had paused. Everywhere in East Africa such expertise is encountered...
...expeditions with his famous parents and learned to recognize fossils almost before he could talk. His childhood conversations were filled with the anatomical, geological and biological jargon of anthropology. His father ?a Church of England missionary's son who was raised almost entirely in the African bush?taught "bushcraft" to Richard and his brothers Jonathan and Philip by sending them out to scavenge and survive in the wild. But as Richard grew up, he became restive living in the shadow of strong-willed and often autocratic Louis Leakey. "I was determined to make my own name," he recalls...
Americans find the Boongs a constant source of wonder for their childlike good nature and shiny black skins, as well as for their highly developed bushcraft. (One private stared at an Abo in amazement, then said: "He's so black he's almost purple.") Boongs like to hang around soldiers' camps, where they get gifts of tobacco, flour and tea, and occasionally a profitable job of tracking...
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