Scouting for Boys: A Handbook for Instruction in Good Citizenship by Robert Baden-Powell (9780198799993)

Elleke Boehmer

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ISBN: 9780198799993

Format: Hardback, 448 pages , 217mm x 142mm x 39mm

Published: 27-Sep-2018

Imprint: Oxford University Press

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Country of Publication: United Kingdom

Description - Scouting for Boys: A Handbook for Instruction in Good Citizenship by Robert Baden-Powell

'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, 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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