Name: Scouting for Boys
ISBN: 9780486457192

Robert Baden-Powell

Originally published: London: H. Cox, c1908.

The Original 1908 Edition

Scouting for Boys

Elleke Boehmer

Presents the original handbook on scouting that inspired the Boy Scout Movement, providing tips on health and hygiene, lessons in woodcraft, adventure stories, and survival techniques.

A Handbook for Instruction in Good Citizenship

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I mean, it’s written by a British military man in 1908, so of course it contains a variety of -isms. (I’d argue that classism is the most prevalent one, although certainly arguments can be made for others.)

Still, I mostly enjoyed reading it, and appreciated the view of citizenship as not just blind loyalty to a nation, but that it starts at home - to your community, town, nation, and the world. The Scout Law is an interesting moral philosophy that I’ve given quite a bit of thought to. 

Favorite yarn: “I had eaten the large kind of lizard called an iguana. He had his head and tail cut off… and when boiled and put on the table, looked exactly like a headless baby…he tasted just like a baby too. Well - you know what a baby tastes like - sort of soft chicken, flavoured with violet-powder.”

Scouting for Boys The Original 1908 Edition

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