@ Richard Graves 1984
Richard Graves, who died in 1971, first published The 10 Bushcraft Books in 1950. A cousin of poet and author Robert Graves, he was an enthusiastic bushwalker, skier and a pioneer of white-water canoeing. During the Second World War he realized that knowing the bush helped to save lives, particularly those of men stranded behind enemy lines in the island jungles of the Pacific zone. He founded and led the Australian Jungle Rescue Detachment, assigned to the Far East United States Air Force. This detachment of 60 specially selected A.I.F. soldiers successfully carried out more than 300 rescue missions during the period of the war. Most these missions were in enemy-held territory. All were successful, and no lives were lost.