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Playing the Game

A Baden-Powell Compendium for Scouts Old and Young

By: Robert Baden-Powell,Robert Stephenson Smyth Baden-Powell Baron Baden-Powell of Gilwell

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Playing the Game

A Baden-Powell Compendium for Scouts Old and Young

By: Robert Baden-Powell,Robert Stephenson Smyth Baden-Powell Baron Baden-Powell of Gilwell

A highly entertaining anthology drawn from the writings of the founder of the Scout movement, originally published to tie-in with the yearlong celebrations of the centenary of scouting, now available in paperbackDrawing on Baden-Powell's extensive archive, Playing the Game is a rich and evocative selection of his writings, on peace - a major theme throughout his career and the theme of the 2007 centenary celebrations, on his own life, from his wonderfull idiosyncratic anecdotal autobiography and includes a healthy sprinkling of some of BP's more memorable aphorisms, such as 'I don't mind confessing I have a weakness for hippos' and 'The man who holds the average boy's attention for more than seven minutes is a genius', not to mention 'Knowledge without character is mere pie-crust'. Imbued with a strong sense of the splendour and the old-school Empire feel of Baden-Powell's work, Playing the Game offers a dazzling window into a world that's gone, but whose legacy remains alive, not least in the 28 million members of the Scouts Association

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Pan Macmillan

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033044235X

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9780330442350

My Adventures as a Spy

By: Robert Baden-Powell

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My Adventures as a Spy

By: Robert Baden-Powell

A wonderful guide to pre-First World War espionage by the founder of the Boy Scouts.

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110

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Amberley Publishing Limited

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1445636107

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9781445636108

Scouting for Boys

A Handbook for Instruction in Good Citizenship

By: Robert Stephenson Smyth Baden-Powell Baron Baden-Powell of Gilwell

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Scouting for Boys

A Handbook for Instruction in Good Citizenship

By: Robert Stephenson Smyth Baden-Powell Baron Baden-Powell of Gilwell

A startling amalgam of Zulu war-cry and imperial and urban myth, of borrowed tips on health and hygiene, and object lessons in woodcraft, this text is the original blueprint and 'self-instructor' of the Boy Scout Movement.

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454

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Oxford University Press, USA

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0192805479

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9780192805478

My Adventures as a Spy

By: Robert Baden-Powell

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My Adventures as a Spy

By: Robert Baden-Powell

This charming volume for younger readers, written during World War I by a British military hero, relates the basics of espionage — including disguise, passing messages, creating diversions, and other maneuvers.

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Courier Corporation

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0486320456

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Scouting for Boys

The Original 1908 Edition

By: Robert Baden-Powell

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Scouting for Boys

The Original 1908 Edition

By: Robert Baden-Powell

This blueprint for the Boy Scout movement not only provides energetic tips on camping, tracking, and woodcraft, but offers proper Victorian-era advice on manners, self-discipline, and good citizenship. Includes the original illustrations.

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Courier Dover Publications

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0486318125

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9780486318127

Scouting for Boys

A Handbook for Instruction in Good Citizenship

By: Robert Baden-Powell

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Scouting for Boys

A Handbook for Instruction in Good Citizenship

By: Robert Baden-Powell

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, and 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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Oxford World's Classics Hardba

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0198799993

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