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Scouting for Boys: A Handbook for Instruction in Good Citizenship

Scouting for Boys: A Handbook for Instruction in Good Citizenship

Baden-Powell, Robert
Boehmer, Elleke

Hardcover

Series: Oxford World's Classics Hardback Collection

General EducationGeneral SociologyGeneral World History

Publisher Price: $24.95

ISBN10: 0198799993
ISBN13: 9780198799993
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: Dec 1 2018
Pages: 448
Weight: 1.20
Height: 1.50 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.70
Language: English
A scout must always be prepared at any moment to do his duty, and to face danger in order to help his fellow-men.

A startling amalgam of Zulu war-cry and imperial and urban myth, of borrowed tips on health and hygiene, and object lessons in woodcraft, Robert Baden-Powell's Scouting for Boys (1908) is the original blueprint and 'self-instructor' of the Boy Scout Movement. One of the all-time bestsellers in the English-speaking world, this primer of 'yarns and pictures' constitutes probably the most influential manual for youth ever published. Yet the book is at the same time a roughly composed hodge-podge of jingoist lore and tracker legend, padded with lengthy quotations from adventure fiction and Baden-Powell's own autobiography, and seamed through with the multiple anxieties of its time: fears of degeneration, concerns about masculinity and self-restraint, and invasion paranoia.

Elleke Boehmer's edition of Scouting for Boys reprints the original text and illustrations, and her fine introduction investigates a book that has been cited as an authority by militarists and pacifists, capitalists and environmentalists alike.

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