Reviews for Ray Mears World of Survival

The average rating for Ray Mears World of Survival based on 2 reviews is 3.5 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2012-08-20 00:00:00 Steve Self Another coffee table book. Whilst I admire Ray Mears and own most if not all his books and many DVD's, this is plainly produced to capitalise on a TV series. No bad thing, you may say. But it's very skimpy on text compared to photo's which to my mind indicates a cheap way to fill pages. Possibly worth the £15 for the avid fan although I would not have purchased except for the fact it was withdrawn from my library at £1!

Review # 2 was written on 2012-07-19 00:00:00 Shawn Burks Great read. Enjoyed it more and more as it went on. Based on the rich diary of Samuel Sewell, here is a wonderful time travel back into 17th century New England, that lets the reader almost live and breath in the society of Puritan Boston. Sewell was one of the judges in the Salem witch trials, so this book exposes the mind sets of the rural second generation colonists in their swirling wild world, beset by savage native Indians to the west and a pirate plagued ocean to the east, stuck between the two was a frontier society striving to build a shining city on a hill. The stark cold hardship of life in this fledgling Massachusetts New Jerusalem was always at the mercy of their Christian God, where harvests and the weather were subject to his good grace. Here is a fascinating life story too, with all it's human triumphs and tragedy. Samuel Sewell was a family man, a New Englander still tied to the old. A trial judge. Anti-slavery agitator and believer of Native-American inclusion into this New World. In 1689 Sewell became one of the very first American tourists, (without check jacket and camera) when he visited England to assist Increase and Cotton Mather with negotiations for a new charter. Hints here of politics to rise one hundred years later.