‘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 composedhodge-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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语言 英语 ● 格式 PDF ● ISBN 9780191585890 ● 编辑 Elleke Boehmer ● 出版者 OUP Oxford ● 发布时间 2004 ● 下载 6 时 ● 货币 EUR ● ID 2275237 ● 复制保护 Adobe DRM
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