Scouting for Boys - A Handbook for Instruction in Good Citizenship (Paperback, Annotated Ed)

'A trained scout will see little signs and tracks, he puts them together in his mind and quickly reads a meaning from them such as an untrained man would never arrive at.' 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. An all-time bestseller in the English-speaking world, second only to the Bible, 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 B-P's own autobiography, and seamed through with the multiple anxieties of its time: fears of degeneration, concerns about masculinity and self-restraint, invasion paranoia. Elleke Boehmer's edition of Scouting for Boys is the first to reprint 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.

General

Imprint:	Oxford UniversityPress
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	February 2005
First published:	May 2005
Authors:	Robert Baden-Powell
Editors:	Elleke Boehmer (Hildred Carlile Professor in English)
Dimensions:	196 x 129 x 30mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	382
Edition:	Annotated Ed
ISBN-13:	978-0-19-280246-0
Categories:	Books > Humanities > History > History of specific subjects > Social & cultural history Books > Sport & Leisure > Sports & outdoor recreation > Active outdoor pursuits > Camping & woodcraft Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social groups & communities > Associations, clubs, societies > General Books > History > History of specific subjects > Social & cultural history Promotions
LSN:	0-19-280246-1
Barcode:	9780192802460

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