Scouting for Boys: The Original 1908 Edition - Couverture souple

Baden-Powell, Robert

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0486457192 ISBN 13 : 9780486457192

Editeur : Dover Publications Inc., 2007

Synopsis

Written by Robert Baden-Powell, Lieutenant General in the British Army and founder of the international Scouting movement, Scouting for Boys is one of the most influential manuals for youth ever published. First printed in 1908, it remains an all-time bestseller in the English-speaking world, second only to the Bible.
The original blueprint and "self-instructor" of the Boy Scout Movement, Scouting for Boys is a fascinating fusion of "yarns and pictures," an irresistible mixture of nationalistic narrative, tracker legend, and quotations from Baden-Powell's own autobiography and the popular adventure fiction of Rudyard Kipling, James Fenimore Cooper, and Alexander Dumas. The book provides practical advice on lighting fires, building boats and stalking animals, alongside proper Victorian-era education on chivalry and manners, self-discipline and improvement, and above all, good citizenship. Expounding upon the topics intrinsic to the life of a scout -- tracking, woodcraft, camp life, endurance, patriotism, and more -- this classic is essential for anyone interested in popular culture and the history of scouting and youth education. Ninety original diagrams and illustrations enhance the text.

A propos du livre

Revue de presse

'very good fun' (Max Hastings, Sunday Telegraph)

'Elleke Boehmer's erudite introduction makes you wish she would get around to writing a full-length biogaphy of the first Chief Scout' (William Cook, New Statesman)

'a gem of a contemporary source' --(Living History)

'the value of Elleke Boehmer's well-annotated text of the original edition is to show us the anxieties, contradictions and excitements of the Boy Scout movement at its inception' (Alan Hollinghurst, Guardian) Ransome was 24 when Robert Baden-Powell s handbook of good citizenship , Scouting for Boys, was published in 1908, and too much of a maverick to have made a good scout. But the information it offers on setting up camp, first aid, woodcraft and tracking, based on Baden-Powell's experiences in India and Africa and Ernest Thompson Seton's book on native American woodcraft, The Birch-Bark Roll, would have fascinated him. He would also have approved of the code of upright behaviour it spelt out. Wisely pruned of the text s worst imperial sentiments, and narrated without tongue in cheek by Mock the Week's Hugh Dennis, it makes lively listening for young and old lovers of outdoor adventure. --The Times

'a gripping read' --(The Oldie)

Présentation de l'éditeur

'A trained scout will see little signs and tracks, he puts them together in his mind and quickly reads a meaning from them such as an untrained man would never arrive at.' 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. An all-time bestseller in the English-speaking world, second only to the Bible, 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 B-P'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 is the first to reprint 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.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Dover Publications Inc.
• Date d'édition: 2007
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0486457192
• ISBN 13: 9780486457192
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 432
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: Soc. Agr. La Raia Ss; http://www.la-raia.it; ; Strada Monterotondo, 79; Novi Ligure; 15067; Italie