bushman
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Locals know Phillips as a bushman with survival skills that would have set him up for building shelters and foraging for food in the wilderness.
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
Hann is a first-class bushman, as hard as nails and full of energy.
From Early Days in North Queensland by Palmer, Edward
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
Rights groups say the government has tried to make the bushmen's lifestyle impossible An appeals court in Botswana has ruled that indigenous bushmen can drill wells for water in the Kalahari desert.
From BBC ● Jan. 27, 2011
Their eyes were clear, and like those of most bushmen singularly steady; their skin was weather-darkened, and they were leanly muscular.
From The Protector by Bindloss, Harold
