Aids to Scouting: For N.-C.Os. & Men - Softcover

Baden-Powell KCB, Sir Robert

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9781535281508: Aids to Scouting: For N.-C.Os. & Men

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1535281502 ISBN 13: 9781535281508

Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2016

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The Ropesend Creek Press paperback edition of Aids to Scouting is fully revised and reset! Now includes Appendix C - "Patrolling Formations for Reconnoitring, or Advanced Guard, or Outposts, Etc." All original diagrams have been reproduced for this Appendix and are included.

In 1899 while serving in the 2nd Boer War, Robert Baden-Powell penned this, his sixth military book, Aids To Scouting. It was a non-typical training manual filled with personal stories of intrigue and even games. Its goal was to encourage the development of light reconnaissance scouting skills within the British Army. The book was well received by various armies of its time, including the French Army.

His successful defense of Mafeking (1899-1900) in South Africa made Baden-Powell a well-known national hero in Britain. But what completely surprised Baden-Powell was that his book was eagerly taken up by teachers and youth groups to help organize outdoor activities and sport. He eventually embraced the idea of adapting his work into a new youth-oriented book, Scouting for Boys (1908) which went on to sell approx. 150 million copies to date. It was that follow-on book that firmly launched the international Boy Scouts movement.

Aids to Scouting contains sections on the characteristics of a scout, as well as practical advice on observation, stealth/camouflage, map reading, sketching, tracking, reporting and care of horses. It presents these topics is a simple conversational style that makes it easy to read, and is illustrated with personal anecdotes of military adventures by the author. It gives scholars clear insights into his mindset and beliefs that served him well in the siege of Mafeking and shows a clear lineage to the formation of the tenets of his formation of the Boy Scouts. Anyone interested in the history of Boy Scouting will definitely want to read this interesting and formative book.

Be sure to keep an eye out for our new editions of Baden-Powell's military and scouting books, which inlcude:

Reconnaissance and Scouting (1884) - red leather cover
Cavalry Instruction (1885) - red canvas cover
Aids to Scouting - For N.-C.Os. & Men (1899) - red cover
Scouting for Boys Part I (1908) - buff cover
Scouting for Boys Part II (1908) - buff cover
Scouting for Boys Part III (1908) - buff cover
Scouting for Boys Part IV (1908) - buff cover
Scouting for Boys Part V (1908) - buff cover
Scouting for Boys Part VI (1908) - buff cover
Scouting for Boys - All Parts (1908) - light blue cover
Boy Scouts of America Official Handbook - Original Edition (1910) - khaki cover
Aids to Scoutmastership (1919) - khaki cover