Scouting for Boys: A Handbook for Instruction in Good Citizenship

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Robert Baden-Powell Elleke Boehmer (Professor of World Literature in English, University of Oxford)

Scouting for Boys

A Handbook for Instruction in Good Citizenship

Robert Baden-Powell, Elleke Boehmer (Professor of World Literature in English, University of Oxford)

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English

Oxford University Press
15 October 2018

Literature, Poetry & Criticism; Social & cultural history; Social groups: clubs & societies; Camping & woodcraft

Series: Oxford World's Classics Hardback Collection

'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.

By: Robert Baden-Powell
Edited by: Elleke Boehmer (Professor of World Literature in English University of Oxford)
Imprint: Oxford University Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 217mm, Width: 142mm, Spine: 39mm
Weight: 568g
ISBN: 9780198799993
ISBN 10: 0198799993
Series: Oxford World's Classics Hardback Collection
Pages: 448
Publication Date: 15 October 2018
Recommended Age: From 9 to 12 years
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Elleke Boehmer is the Professor of World Literature in English at the University of Oxford, and Director of the Oxford Life Writing Centre at Wolfson College. A founding figure in the field of colonial and postcolonial literary studies, she is the author, editor, or co-editor of over twenty books, including monographs and novels. Her monographs include Colonial and Postcolonial Literature (1995/2005), Stories of Women (2005), Indian Arrivals (winner ESSE 2015-16 prize), and Postcolonial Poetics (2018). Her novels include The Shouting in the Dark (long-listed Sunday Times prize, 2015), and Screens again the Sky (short-listed David Higham Prize 1990). Sharmilla and other Portraits is her 2010 volume of short stories. She is the General Editor of the Oxford Studies in Postcolonial Literatures Series.

Reviews for Scouting for Boys: A Handbook for Instruction in Good Citizenship

a gripping read * The Oldie * this fascinating volume tells us a lot about Baden-Powell, his movement and even to some extent the particular point in time when scouting was born' * Washington Times * Elleke Boehmer's erudite introduction makes you wish she would get around to writing a full-length biogaphy of the first Chief Scout * William Cook, New Statesman * the value of Elleke Boehmer's well-annotated text of the original edition is to show us the anxieties, contradictions and excitements of the Boy Scout movement at its inception * Alan Hollinghurst, Guardian * very good fun * Max Hastings, Sunday Telegraph *