Scouting for Boys: The Original 1908 Edition (Dover Books on Sports and Popular Recreations) - Softcover

Baden-Powell, Robert

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0486457192 ISBN 13: 9780486457192

Publisher: Dover Publications Inc, 2007

Synopsis

The blueprint for the Boy Scout movement, this hugely influential manual is a must for anyone interested in scouting, youth education, and outdoor activities. The celebrated British general not only provides energetic tips on camping, tracking, and woodcraft, but offers proper Victorian-era advice on manners, self-discipline, and, above all, good citizenship. Includes the original illustrations.

About this title

Review:

'very good fun' (Max Hastings, Sunday Telegraph)

'Elleke Boehmer's erudite introduction makes you wish she would get around to writing a full-length biogaphy of the first Chief Scout' (William Cook, New Statesman)

'a gem of a contemporary source' --(Living History)

'the value of Elleke Boehmer's well-annotated text of the original edition is to show us the anxieties, contradictions and excitements of the Boy Scout movement at its inception' (Alan Hollinghurst, Guardian) Ransome was 24 when Robert Baden-Powell s handbook of good citizenship , Scouting for Boys, was published in 1908, and too much of a maverick to have made a good scout. But the information it offers on setting up camp, first aid, woodcraft and tracking, based on Baden-Powell's experiences in India and Africa and Ernest Thompson Seton's book on native American woodcraft, The Birch-Bark Roll, would have fascinated him. He would also have approved of the code of upright behaviour it spelt out. Wisely pruned of the text s worst imperial sentiments, and narrated without tongue in cheek by Mock the Week's Hugh Dennis, it makes lively listening for young and old lovers of outdoor adventure. --The Times

'a gripping read' --(The Oldie)

About the Author:

Elleke Boehmer is Hildred Carlile Professor in English at Royal Holloway, University of London. She is the author of many books and articles on postcolonial writing and theory. She has also written short stories and three novels, most recently Bloodlines.

About this edition

• Publisher: Dover Publications Inc
• Publication date: 2007
• ISBN 10: 0486457192
• ISBN 13: 9780486457192
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 432