Explore Australia and learn how to survive with legendary Bush Tucker Man, Les Hiddins

In a battered army truck, his home a simple roll of blankets, Major Les Hiddins seeks out and records the different kinds of bush food and medicines used by Aboriginal people for thousands of years.

He’s a bush survival expert for the Australian Army and travels alone through the vast, almost totally unpopulated lands of northern Australia to carry out his unique job. And despite the solitude he’s a chatty, humorous man who is as entertaining as he is informative.

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Major Leslie James (Les) Hiddins AM (born August 13, 1946 in Brisbane, Queensland), aka “The Bush Tucker Man” is a retired Australian Army soldier and war veteran, who is best known for his love and knowledge of the Australian bush. Hiddins is recognised by his distinctively modified Akubra hat and big grin.

As a soldier with the Australian Army, Hiddins did two tours of duty in Vietnam between 1966 and 1968, the first as a forward scout in the infantry. In 1987 he was awarded a Defence Fellowship to research survival in northern Australia. He was the principal author of the Australian Army’s Combat Survival manual (1987) and was awarded Member of the Order of Australia (AM) in 1987 ^[1].

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