Bush Tucker man: stories of exploration and survival. Les Hiddins. 1996.

Bush Tucker man: stories of exploration and survival retraces the epic journeys of some of Australia’s earliest bushmen, explorers, pioneers and convicts.

Combining passionate enthusiasm for Australian history with a vast knowledge of the continent’s varied natural environments, Les Hiddins, the Bush Tucker Man casts new light on some of our most extraordinary pioneering journeys, intriguing legends and enduring exploration mysteries. Les uncovers evidence that the survivors of a Dutch shipwreck on the West Australian coast in the early 1700s somehow established a community thousands of kilometres away in central Australia. H retells that most extreme of survival stories, the gruesome recourse to cannibalism by Alexander Pearce after escaping into the Tasmanian wilderness from the infamous Sarah Island prison in 1822.