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He had a very rural upbringing, living on Holy Island and then on the mainland in rural North Northumberland. Through these and his mother's 'hippy' lifestyle he was involved in coastal and inland foraging. He learned how to trap and prepare small game and kept pigs, hens and ducks. Before becoming a geography teacher, Nick worked in saddlery where he developed numerous leather working skills. As well as classroom teaching, he led the navigation and expedition modules of the Public Services course and numerous extra curricular activities involving outdoors skills. During his 17 years in the Territorial Army he qualified, amongst other things, as an infantry soldier, pioneer, signaller and chef as well as instructing skill at arms, map reading, NBC etc. Nick has also been a scout and DofE leader, has taught lots of bushcraft and survival skills and led expeditions to Scandinavia and Africa. 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Thanks for that. I'm sure lots of people will be interested.","author":{"@type":"Person","name":"Nick Allen","url":"https:\/\/www.survivalandbushcrafts.com"}},{"@type":"Comment","@id":"https:\/\/www.survivalandbushcrafts.com\/the-atlatl-a-technological-breakthrough-in-primitive-hunting\/#Comment2","dateCreated":"2022-02-03 03:10:13","description":"If you've not seen it, here is a professional academic study on the extreme effectiveness of the American atlatl, including a successful bison hunt, university-funded.\r\n\r\nhttps:\/\/m.youtube.com\/watch?v=l7jMxfopKjM","author":{"@type":"Person","name":"Mike","url":""}}]},{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/www.survivalandbushcrafts.com\/alexander-selkirk-the-greatest-survivor\/","headline":"Alexander Selkirk: The Greatest Survivor?","url":"https:\/\/www.survivalandbushcrafts.com\/alexander-selkirk-the-greatest-survivor\/","datePublished":"2021-01-19","dateModified":"2021-01-25","mainEntityOfPage":"https:\/\/www.survivalandbushcrafts.com\/alexander-selkirk-the-greatest-survivor\/","author":{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/www.survivalandbushcrafts.com\/author\/nicka\/#Person","name":"Nick Allen","url":"https:\/\/www.survivalandbushcrafts.com\/author\/nicka\/","identifier":2,"description":"Nick is one of those people who didn't know he was a bushcrafter until the term seemed to become popular. 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Your pictures and comments will be a guideline for me, and my thanks to you for the great presentation.        Roy Reno","author":{"@type":"Person","name":"Roy Reno","url":""}}]}]}