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Boy Scouts handbook

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This is a full-color edition of the very first Boy Scouts Handbook, complete with the wonderful vintage advertisements that accompanied the original1911 edition, Over 40 million copies in print!The original Boy Scouts Handbook standardized American scouting and emphasized the virtues and qualifications for scouting, delineating what the American Boy Scouts declared was needed to be a “well-developed, well-informed boy.” The book includes information on:The organization of scoutingSigns and signalingCampingScouting gamesDescription of scouting honors. Scouts past and present will be fascinated to see how scouting has changed, as well as what has stayed the same over the years. “In these pages and throughout our organization we have made it obligatory upon our scouts that they cultivate courage, loyalty, patriotism, brotherliness, self-control courtesy, kindness to animals, usefulness, cheerfulness, cleanliness, thrift purity, and honor, no one can doubt that with such training added to his native gifts, the American boy will bin the near future, as a man, bean efficient leader in the paths of civilization and peace.”—From the Preface

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Skyhorse Publishing
1616081988 / 9781616081980
Paperback / softback
19/04/2012
United States
English
448 p. : col. ill.
20 cm