| Scouting for Boys: A Handbook for Instruction in Good Citizenship Contributor(s): Baden-Powell, Robert (Author), Boehmer, Elleke (Editor) |
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ISBN: 0198799993 ISBN-13: 9780198799993 Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA OUR PRICE: $22.46 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: December 2018 * Not available - Not in print at this time * |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Social Science - Education - History | Social History |
| Dewey: 369 |
| Series: Oxford World's Classics Hardback Collection |
| Physical Information: 1.5" H x 5.5" W x 8.7" (1.20 lbs) 448 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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, and 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. |