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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.
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The book Scouting for Boys (1908) is Baden-Powell's rewrite of his earlier military books Reconnaissance and Scouting (1884) and Aids to Scouting for NCO's and Men (1899). These earlier books were military manuals used by the British Army to train its scouts. At Mafeking, Baden-Powell recruited and trained boys aged 12-15 as scouts -- essentially c...
(in English) Scouting for Boys (First publication ed.). London, Windsor House, Bream's Buildings, E.C.: Horace Cox (printer for C.A. Pearson). January–March 1908. pp. six instalments of approx 70 p...(in English) Scouting for Boys (1st edition in bookform, cloth-bound ed.). London, Henrietta Street: C. Arthur Pearson Ltd. 1908-05-01. pp. 288 pages.(in English) Scouting for Boys(2nd revised edition ed.). London: C. Arthur Pearson Ltd. June 1909.(in English) Scouting for Boys(3rd enlarged edition ed.). London: C. Arthur Pearson Ltd. July 1910.All parts have the title Scouting for Boysin big capitals. With a listed price of '4d. net', it was affordable to many boys (many of whom would have been at work, as the school-leaving age was 14). Authorship is clearly attributed: 'by B-P (Lieut. Gen. Baden Powell C.B.)' (sic). Most chapters start with hints to instructors. All chapters have camp ...
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...
- Elleke Boehmer
- Elleke Boehmer
Baden-Powell even named his son after the literary Boy Who Would Never Grow Up, and one of the curious tensions in Scouting for Boys, thoughtfully explored by Boehmer, is between scouting as a preparation for the adulthood to come (military service, or work in service of the Empire whether as a pen-pusher or simple adherent) and scouting as a ...
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.
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Sep 1, 2006 · Scouting for Boys has been regularly pillaged by historians over the decades for bite-size quotations, and not just by those writing on the histories of children and young people, but also by those interested in the ‘Edwardian Crisis’ more generally. It is therefore very useful to have the full original text easily available again.
