Scouting for Boys

A Handbook for Instruction in Good Citizenship

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Elleke Boehmer

Verlag:

Oxford University Press

Unsere-Artikel-Nr.: G553WEP

EAN: 9780198799993

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Nicht auf Lager

Zustellung: Di, 23.06.2026

Versand: Kostenlos

CHF 31.75

Beschreibung

'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.

Spezifikationen

Sprache

Englisch

Autor

Elleke Boehmer
Robert Baden-Powell

Erscheinungsjahr

2018

Format

Buch (Hardcover)

Anzahl Seiten