Scouting For Boys: A Handbook For Instruction In Good Citizenship (Oxford World's Classics Hardback Collection)

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.

• | Author: Robert Baden-Powell
• | Publisher: Oxford University Press
• | Publication Date: Dec 01, 2018
• | Number of Pages: 448 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Hardcover
• | ISBN-10: 0198799993
• | ISBN-13: 9780198799993