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'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, 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.

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Author

Robert Baden-Powell; Elleke Boehmer

Publisher

OUP Oxford

Published

2004

Language

EN

ISBN

9780191585890

Category

collectibles

Subjects

History, Crafts & Hobbies, Social Science

Rating

4.27 / 5 (292 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14