Lost in the Bush, , Kauri Press, 2004, 0958239282, 9780958239288, . When Jordan gets lost in the bush she remembers all of the bush survival techniques her Grandpa Joe taught her. Includes suggestions for activities. Suggested level: junior, primary..

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Let's Go Camping 66 Great Places to Pitch Your Tent Or Park Your Van and Things to Do When You Get There, Sarah Bennett, Lee Slater, Feb 15, 2010, , 240 pages. New Zealanders love travelling around their beautiful country and part of that experience encompasses the time-honoured ritual of pitching a tent in the great outdoors. Happy ....

Greedy Cat and the Goldfish , , Sep 1, 2009, , 32 pages. The fat, lovable cat is back - and in search of more food! When Grandma goes on holiday, Katie offers to look after her goldfish. Yum! thinks Greedy Cat. A snack for Greedy Cat ....

Jellybean , , 1985, , 112 pages. The only child of a single mother, Geraldine is tired of having to fit into her mother's busy orchestra schedule but things begin to change when she discovers a new friend and ....

The Mountain Biker's Training Bible A Complete Training Guide for the Competitive Mountain Biker, Joe Friel, Ned Overend, Jun 1, 2000, , 309 pages. Explains how to be an effective self-coach, offers instruction for developing a training program based on a sound scientific approach, and discusses the importance of strength ....

Emily the Kiwi Plays the Ukulele , Janet Martin, Mar 1, 2010, , 24 pages. "Everyone knows that kiwi birds always sleep in the day - all except Emily the Kiwi, who loves to play her ukulele."--Back cover. Includes brief factual information about the ....

Great Kiwi Eats The Tastiest and Most Interesting Food - What to Look for and Where to Find It, Peter Janssen, May 1, 2010, , . Looking for a good feed that isn't going to cost you the earth? In the mood for something special and not sure where to find it? Want somewhere nice to eat that isn't going to ....

Flamingos , Jean M. Malone, Jan 8, 2009, , 48 pages. Introduction to the physiology, characteristics, diet, and habitat of the pink flamingo..

Man against nature , Ronald Mathias Lockley, 1970, Travel, 239 pages. .

The Fairy Doll , Rumer Godden, 2007, Brothers and sisters, 64 pages. As the youngest in the family, Elizabeth is slow and clumsy and always in trouble until she is taken in hand by the Fairy Doll that usually decorates the top of the Christmas tree..

Iridescence , Lindy Kelly, Dec 1, 2008, Fiction, . . Hairy Maclary and Friends Four More Stories, Lynley Dodd, Jun 1, 2002, , 133 pages. Collection of four stories about Hairy Maclary and his gang, well established characters in children's literature by well known children's author, Lynley Dodd. Text ....

Lost in the bush the story of Jane Duff, Leslie James Blake, 1964, , 38 pages. .

The witch in the cherry tree , , 1974, Fiction, 32 pages. David and his mother outsmart the witch that comes to sample their freshly baked cakes..

Grandpa and Thomas , , 2003, Family & Relationships, 30 pages. Swish, swash, swoosh, sings the sea. Thomas and Grandpa go to the beach. It is an Australian summer. The sun is shining, the gulls are screeching and the sea is singing. In ....

Collins World Atlas , HARPERCOLLINS UK, 2002, Reference, 248 pages. 'The Collins World Atlas' Concise Edition presents an exciting view of the world through innovative maps and a stunning collection of geographical images. Detailed reference ....

Lost! A True Tale from the Bush, Stephanie Owen Reeder, William Strutt, 2009, Children's clothing, 110 pages. Tales of children lost in the bush have frightened and fascinated Australians since colonial times. In August 1864, three childrene"Isaac aged nine, Jane aged seven and Frank ....

Many European settlers found the forests forbidding and alien: they used words like 'sombre', 'monotonous' and 'melancholy' to describe the Australian bush. The first British observers focussed on the grotesque perversities of nature. McCoy (1862) spoke of the forests' 'savage silence, or worse'. Poets tried to describe the contrast between the Australian and British landscape: Adam Lindsay Gordon, for example, wrote of the bush 'Where bright blossoms are scentless, and songless bright birds.' These quotations are evidence of an emotional alienation, a feeling of aloneness and abandonment.

Stories of people lost in the bush have become part of Australians' psyche. Children and adults lost their way, wandered away from picnic grounds, followed streams which seemed to lead nowhere, became lost and were never found. The artist Von Guerard was part of a group picnicking party at Fern Tree in 1858 when a young boy, Louis Viewsseux, became lost; the party searched frantically for him, but his body was not found until two years later. Patrick Moylette, a mounted policeman from the Emerald Station, became hopelessly lost in 1859; although his horse found its way back to settled areas, his body has never been found. Aboriginal trackers were often used in an attempt to find missing people. Illustrated newspapers published paintings with titles like Found-Too Late, which expressed a very real fear of the dangers in the bush. One of the most-read Australian children's books of early this century, Dot and the Kangaroo, took up the theme of the child lost and afraid in the bush.

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As night fell, with their son still lost, Simon's parents and a team of rescuers scoured the area in search of the boy, though their efforts proved fruitless. But on that chilly night, alone in the unforgiving wild, the missing child encountered a friendly local who he says helped save him from the elements.

It wasn't until 24 hours later, as helicopters joined in the search, that Simon was discovered and airlifted back to civilization, recounting a story of animal-assisted survival that sounds almost too incredible to believe. Though it wouldn't be the first time a 7 year old told a tall tale, Simon's mother says she knew it was true as soon as she smelled his clothing:

It may be impossible to say if the kangaroo was displaying rare altruism, or if its natural behavior was merely interpreted as such by an imaginative child -- but it wouldn't be the first time a kangaroo has stepped-in to help a human. In 2003, a rescued orphan kangaroo came to the aid of its keeper who had been knocked unconscious by a falling tree-limb while out on his property, sounding a distress call by yapping frantically until his family arrived to find him.

"I am not a particularly religious person but I started thinking about God and was praying, saying surely, surely you can move the helicopter an inch and find me. I was thinking that I might die on the mountain and in the notebook I had, which I later lost, I had actually written some goodbye notes, things to family, saying sorry and explaining how I got lost and things like that. I thought I was going to have a long painful starvation death where I could just really think it over and over and over again."

When he first left a path, he had not thought he was in much trouble. But he became "really shocked" when he realised he was on the wrong side of a valley. "I'd fallen in water and hadn't been able to get out. That's when the panic started to set in because I knew I couldn't climb up and down these hills, it was too tough and I couldn't get out."

Neale said that for the first two nights he "pretty much laid down on the floor, bundled up in a ball and camped out and stuck it out. When I realised that I was a bit lost and was waiting for rescue, I actually did build a shelter to hunker down in". But he was unable to light a fire to keep warm and as a signal to rescuers. http://kgarch.org/113a.pdf http://kgarch.org/i38.pdf http://kgarch.org/gm3.pdf http://kgarch.org/134e.pdf