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Scouting for Boys

A Handbook for Instruction in Good Citizenship

By Elleke Boehmer, Robert Baden-Powell

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| Paperback | 9780192802460

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A startling amalgam of Zulu war-cry and Sherlock Holmes, of practical tips on health and hygiene and object lessons in woodcraft, Scouting for Boys (1908) is the original blueprint and inspiration for the Boy Scout Movement. An all-time bestseller in the English-speaking world, second in its
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A startling amalgam of Zulu war-cry and Sherlock Holmes, of practical tips on health and hygiene and object lessons in woodcraft, Scouting for Boys (1908) is the original blueprint and inspiration for the Boy Scout Movement. An all-time bestseller in the English-speaking world, second in its
heyday only to the Bible, it is one of the most influential manuals for youth ever published, known and loved around the world.
Including all of Baden-Powell's original illustrations, this new critical edition of Scouting for Boys serves up a wonderful hodge-podge of true crime stories, stern moralizing, stock adventure tales, natural history, first-aid tips, advice on observation and tracking, and much more. Readers
will find a roughly composed pastiche of jingoist lore and tracker legend, padded with lengthy quotations from adventure fiction--from Rudyard Kipling and James Fenimore Cooper, to Alexander Dumas and Arthur Conan Doyle--and seamed through with the multiple anxieties of its time: fears of
degeneration ("the fall of the Roman empire was due to bad citizenship") and a constant worry over imminent war. Alongside practical instructions on how to light fires, build a boat, or stalk animals (or men), it includes sections on chivalry, self-discipline, self-improvement, and citizenship.
Indeed, the book brims with Baden-Powell's philosophy of life, one that replaces self with service, puts country before the individual, and duty above all. The introduction by Elleke Boehmer illuminates the book's maverick complexity and her notes clarify obscure references.
Though almost a century old, Scouting for Boys continues to fascinate, surprise, and motivate readers today. It will delight anyone interested in popular culture, Victorian history, and literature for children.

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  • Tenderfoots need not apply

    Scouting for Boys by Robert Baden-Powell, edited by Elleke Boehmer 382pp, Oxford, £12.99 Scouting for Boys was one of the magic books of the 20th century. Its charms were not literary - it was flung together in a mood of excited improvisation, to be ... (read full critics)

    guardian.co.uk published on Sat, 25 Sep 2010

  • Scouting for Boys By Lord Robert Baden-Powell

    Scouts' honorOne can't say "Be prepared" without acknowledging the originator of the phrase: Lord Robert Baden-Powell. This year sees the reprinting of Baden-Powell's 1908 book that started it all, Scouting for Boys, with a new introduction by Elleke ... (read full critics)

    bookpage published on Tue, 14 Sep 2010

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  • English Books
  • Paperback 448 Pages
  • ISBN-10: 0192802461
  • ISBN-13: 9780192802460
  • Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
  • Pub date: Jun 02, 2005
  • Dimensions: 1290 mm x 903 mm x 194 mm Just how big is that?
  • Also available as: Hardcover
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