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Martino Fine Books Scouting For Boys by Robert Baden-Powell
2010 Facsimile of 1908 Edition. Robert BadenPowell was born in 1857 and served in the British Army in India Afghanistan and later West and South Africa. In Scouting for Boys he mixed his love for the outdoors and delight in playacting together with the games ethics of the Victorian public school and processed these into a newly minted tradition that is scouting which became Britains most successful recreational export of the twentieth century. This book is the foundation document for scouting. Profusely illustrated.show more