Scouting for Boys
A Handbook for Instruction in Good Citizenship
Oxford World's Classics
- Forfatter: Robert Baden-Powell
- Format: Pocket
- Antall sider: 448
- Språk: Engelsk
- Forlag/Utgiver: SD Books
- Serienavn: Oxford World's Classics
- EAN: 9780198900344
- Utgivelsesår: 2024
- Bidragsyter: Baden-Powell, Robert
149,-
''A Scout is a Friend to all''An amalgam of imperial myth, borrowed tips on health and hygiene, and object lessons in woodcraft, the 1908 text of Robert Baden-Powell''s Scouting for Boys 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, capitalis
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