bushman
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Mr Phillips was known to be a bushman who had some survival training.
From BBC ● Sep. 8, 2025
Murray's bid for a second grand slam title Down Under has sparked a light-hearted dig at Australia's iconic celluloid hero "Crocodile Dundee", the weathered bushman played by Paul Hogan in the 1986 film.
From Reuters ● Jan. 15, 2013
Surely an Inuit elder or a Kalahari bushman has equal credentials when it comes to describing and passing on a way of life or way of thought to enhance the lives of future generations.
From The Guardian ● Nov. 22, 2012
If you go back and look at bushman art, early cave painting, you see sport being illustrated within those paintings.
From New York Times ● Jul. 10, 2010
He was rather particular about such things for a bushman, and he may be called such without it being a misnomer.
From Settling Day by Nat Gould
Herzog depicts the bushmen who aid Boyes as dignified, diligent and intelligent without romanticizing them while capturing the rugged beauty of the African landscape.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 24, 2026
The Namibian bushmen seem pretty impressed with Eddie's virgin fire–making skills, too.
From The Guardian ● Feb. 20, 2013
Just 200 years ago, San bushmen decorated the walls of the Drakensburg mountains with abstract patterns eerily similar to the ones in France and Spain.
From Slate ● Oct. 18, 2012
The UK-based rights group Survival International, which has supported the bushmen, hailed the latest court decision.
From BBC ● Jan. 27, 2011
My folk were bushmen and dreaded the sea, but these enemies were salt-water men, who could with axe and adz scoop from the solid tree outrigger canoes and who were terrible in their strength.
From The Portal of Dreams by Charles Neville Buck
