{"product_id":"9780192802460-secondhand-scouting-for-boys-a-handbook-for-instruction-in-good-citizenship","title":"Scouting for Boys: A Handbook for Instruction in Good Citizenship","description":"'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.'\nA 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\nMovement. 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\nsame 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.\nElleke 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\nhas been cited as an authority by militarists and pacifists, capitalists and environmentalists alike.","brand":"Secondhand Stock","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48810575266011,"sku":"9780192802460-SECONDHAND","price":12.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0523\/7646\/9701\/files\/4459de0f-fa0f-4348-a426-8cdc35604aae.jpg?v=1779805486","url":"https:\/\/bookgrocer.com\/products\/9780192802460-secondhand-scouting-for-boys-a-handbook-for-instruction-in-good-citizenship","provider":"Book Grocer","version":"1.0","type":"link"}