Scouting for Boys: A Handbook for Instruction in Good CitizenshipOxford University Press, 2004 - 382 pagini 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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Pagina xi
... Aids to Scouting ( London : Gale and Polden , 1899 ; of which pp . 51-9 appear as Scouting for Boys pp . 89-98 ) , The Matabele Campaign 1896 ( London : Methuen and Co. , 1897 ) , and Reconnaissance and Scouting ( London : William ...
... Aids to Scouting ( London : Gale and Polden , 1899 ; of which pp . 51-9 appear as Scouting for Boys pp . 89-98 ) , The Matabele Campaign 1896 ( London : Methuen and Co. , 1897 ) , and Reconnaissance and Scouting ( London : William ...
Pagina xvii
... Aids to Scouting ( 1899 ) , the proofs of which had left for England on one of the last trains out of Mafeking , were being adopted by a number of boys ' organizations as a way of inculcating military exercises in an entertaining manner ...
... Aids to Scouting ( 1899 ) , the proofs of which had left for England on one of the last trains out of Mafeking , were being adopted by a number of boys ' organizations as a way of inculcating military exercises in an entertaining manner ...
Pagina xxiv
... Aids to Scouting , encouraged lessons in ' the school of nature ' . A pastoral escapism is openly celebrated in the less con- ventional work of the sexual theorist Edward Carpenter , and in the ' Neo - pagan ' circle that in Cambridge ...
... Aids to Scouting , encouraged lessons in ' the school of nature ' . A pastoral escapism is openly celebrated in the less con- ventional work of the sexual theorist Edward Carpenter , and in the ' Neo - pagan ' circle that in Cambridge ...
Pagina xxviii
... scout ( as demon- strated , for example , in Aids to Scouting ) , but also , as at Mafeking , by inventing schemes and ruses of all kinds . He himself spent an inordinate amount of time , while ostensibly on official duty , engaged in ...
... scout ( as demon- strated , for example , in Aids to Scouting ) , but also , as at Mafeking , by inventing schemes and ruses of all kinds . He himself spent an inordinate amount of time , while ostensibly on official duty , engaged in ...
Pagina xli
... Scouting for Boys had different points of gen- esis : several sections are cannibalized from other books by Baden- Powell , in particular , Reconnaissance and Scouting ( 1884 ) and Aids to Scouting ( 1899 ) , as well as many books by ...
... Scouting for Boys had different points of gen- esis : several sections are cannibalized from other books by Baden- Powell , in particular , Reconnaissance and Scouting ( 1884 ) and Aids to Scouting ( 1899 ) , as well as many books by ...
Cuprins
SCOUTCRAFT | 9 |
TRACKING | 65 |
WOODCRAFT | 97 |
CAMP LIFE | 128 |
CAMPAIGNING | 152 |
ENDURANCE for SCOUTS | 186 |
CHIVALRY of the KNIGHTS | 212 |
SAVING LIFE | 248 |
PATRIOTISM | 273 |
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