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Book Scouting and Reconnaissance in Savage Countries

Download or read book Scouting and Reconnaissance in Savage Countries written by Chauncy Hugh Stigand and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 143 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Scouting and Reconnaissance in Savage Countries

Download or read book Scouting and Reconnaissance in Savage Countries written by Chauncey Hugh Stigand and published by . This book was released on 2019-01-07 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 112 years in the making, finally a second edition of CH Stigand's Scouting & Reconnaissance in Savage Countries. Introduced and edited by CA Brown, this new edition has been completely reset and includes all original illustrations as well as new photographs. Originally published in 1907, Scouting & Reconnaissance in Savage Countries is one of several books which inspired the Scouting movement worldwide. Originally released as a waterproof cloth-covered field book, there was never a second printing and there has never been a paperback edition until now. With original first editions costing thousands, this new paperback edition from Ropesend Creek Press sees Stigand's seminal work on the topic of Scouting and Reconnaissance finally made accessible to today's camper, traveller, Scouter and historian.

Book Aids To Scouting

Download or read book Aids To Scouting written by Robert Baden-Powell and published by Loose Cannon. This book was released on 2015-02-10 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1899 while serving in the 2nd Boer War, Robert Baden-Powell penned his sixth military book, Aids To Scouting. It was a non-typical training manual filled with personal stories of intrigue and even games. Its goal was to encourage the development of light reconnaissance scouting skills within the British Army. The book was well received by various armies of its time, including the French Army. His successful defense of Mafeking (1899-1900) in South Africa made Baden-Powell a well-known national hero in Britain. But what completely surprised Baden-Powell was that his book was eagerly taken up by teachers and youth groups to help organize outdoor activities and sport. He eventually embraced the idea of adapting his work into a new youth-oriented book, Scouting for Boys (1908) which went on to sell approx. 150 million copies to date. It was that follow-on book that firmly launched the international Boy Scouts movement. Aids to Scouting contains sections on the characters of a scout, as well as practical advice on observation, stealth/camouflage, map reading, sketching, tracking, reporting and care of horses. It presents these topics is a simple conversational style that makes it easy to read, and is illustrated with personal anecdotes of military adventures by the author. It gives scholars clear insights into his mindset and beliefs that served him well in the siege of Mafeking and shows a clear lineage to the formation of the tenets of his formation of the Boy Scouts. Anyone interested in the history of Boy Scouting will definitely want to read this interesting and formative book. (NOTE - Appendix C contents is missing in this Kindle version - but we hope to update the ebook with it once a suitable facsimile can be referenced). Keywords: Boy Scout,scout,recon,cavalry,Boer War,british,scouting,recce, South Africa

Book Scouting for Boys

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  • Author : Robert Stephenson Smyth Baden-Powell Baron Baden-Powell of Gilwell
  • Publisher : Hobble Creek Press
  • Release : 1908
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 370 pages

Download or read book Scouting for Boys written by Robert Stephenson Smyth Baden-Powell Baron Baden-Powell of Gilwell and published by Hobble Creek Press. This book was released on 1908 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Scouting for Boys

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  • Author : Robert Baden-Powell
  • Publisher : Oxford University Press
  • Release : 2024-05-23
  • ISBN : 0198900368
  • Pages : 449 pages

Download or read book Scouting for Boys written by Robert Baden-Powell and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2024-05-23 with total page 449 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'A Scout is a Friend to all' An amalgam of imperial myth, borrowed tips on health and hygiene, and object lessons in woodcraft, the 1908 text of Robert Baden-Powell's Scouting for Boys 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. ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, helpful notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more.

Book Sons of the Empire

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  • Author : Robert Macdonald
  • Publisher : University of Toronto Press
  • Release : 2011-11-01
  • ISBN : 1442613130
  • Pages : 284 pages

Download or read book Sons of the Empire written by Robert Macdonald and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2011-11-01 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Sons of the Empire, Robert MacDonald explores popular ideas and myths in Edwardian Britain, their use by Baden-Powell, and their influence on the Boy Scout movement. In particular, he analyses the model of masculinity provided by the imperial frontier, the view that life in younger, far-flung parts of the empire was stronger, less degenerate than in Britain. The stereotypical adventurer - the frontiersman - provided an alternative ethic to British society. The best known example of it at the time was Baden-Powell himself, a war scout, the Hero of Mafeking in the South African war, and one of the first cult heroes to be created by the modern media. When Baden-Powell founded the Boy Scouts in 1908, he used both the power of the frontier myth and his own legend as a hero to galvanize the movement. The glamour of war scouting was hard to resist, its adventures a seductive invitation to the first recruits. But Baden-Powell had a serious educational program in mind: Boy Scouts were to be trained in good citizenship. MacDonald documents his study with a wide range of contemporary sources, from newspapers to military memoirs. Exploring the genesis of an imperial institution through its own texts, he brings new insight into the Edwardian age.

Book Military Sketching and Map Reading for Noncoms    Men

Download or read book Military Sketching and Map Reading for Noncoms Men written by Reginald Francis Legge and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Cavalry Journal

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  • Author :
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1907
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 592 pages

Download or read book The Cavalry Journal written by and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 592 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Before Social Anthropology

Download or read book Before Social Anthropology written by James Urry and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-10-12 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First Published in 1993. From the 1930s, British anthropology was dominated by social anthropologists, an achievement of the two founding fathers, Bronislaw Malinowski and A.R. Radcliffe-Brown. However, the field of ethnology had originated in Britain in the 1840s and a broadly based general anthropology was well established before the rise of social anthropology. The essays in this volume explore the development of British anthropology in the period from 1880 to 1920 and deal with such diverse issues as the establishment of new research methodologies, the development of ethnographic reporting, institutional change and the professionalization of the subject, and the connection between anthropology and imperialism. These essays reveal how the establishment of social anthropology involved a narrowing field which at first involved not just the study of custom but also included archaeology, physical anthropology and philology. The emergence of the new approaches of the 1920s and 1930s, and the triumph of social anthropology as an academic, intellectual and professional discipline in post-war Britain also led to the subsequent loss of a more holistic vision of anthropology.

Book Journal of the Royal United Service Institution

Download or read book Journal of the Royal United Service Institution written by Royal United Services Institute for Defence Studies and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 820 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Picturing Empire

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  • Author : James R. Ryan
  • Publisher : Reaktion Books
  • Release : 2013-06-01
  • ISBN : 1780231636
  • Pages : 274 pages

Download or read book Picturing Empire written by James R. Ryan and published by Reaktion Books. This book was released on 2013-06-01 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Coinciding with the extraordinary expansion of Britain's overseas empire under Queen Victoria, the invention of photography allowed millions to see what they thought were realistic and unbiased pictures of distant peoples and places. This supposed accuracy also helped to legitimate Victorian geography's illuminations of the "darkest" recesses of the globe with the "light" of scientific mapping techniques. But as James R. Ryan argues in Picturing Empire, Victorian photographs reveal as much about the imaginative landscapes of imperial culture as they do about the "real" subjects captured within their frames. Ryan considers the role of photography in the exploration and domestication of foreign landscapes, in imperial warfare, in the survey and classification of "racial types," in "hunting with the camera," and in teaching imperial geography to British schoolchildren. Ryan's careful exposure of the reciprocal relation between photographic image and imperial imagination will interest all those concerned with the cultural history of the British Empire.

Book Who s who

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  • Author : Henry Robert Addison
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1915
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 2454 pages

Download or read book Who s who written by Henry Robert Addison and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page 2454 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An annual biographical dictionary, with which is incorporated "Men and women of the time."

Book The English Catalogue of Books  annual

Download or read book The English Catalogue of Books annual written by Sampson Low and published by . This book was released on 1908 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vols. for 1898-1968 include a directory of publishers.

Book The English Catalogue of Books

Download or read book The English Catalogue of Books written by Sampson Low and published by . This book was released on 1911 with total page 1630 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Volumes for 1898-1968 include a directory of publishers.

Book Reconnaissance and Scouting

    Book Details:
  • Author : Capt R S Baden-Powell
  • Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
  • Release : 1891-03-21
  • ISBN : 9781986744126
  • Pages : 72 pages

Download or read book Reconnaissance and Scouting written by Capt R S Baden-Powell and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 1891-03-21 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Before "Aids to Scouting" and long before "Scouting for Boys," "Reconnaissance and Scouting" distilled all of Baden-Powell's military scouting and reconnaissance knowledge and experience into an easily-digestible series of twenty lessons designed to instruct British army officers and NCOs in the little-known arts of military scouting. With all original illustrations, this new paperback edition of Baden-Powell's "Scouting and Reconnaissance" brings this exceptionally rare book to a 21st Century audience. Those with modern military special operations or reconnaissance experience will see many concepts presented in the books which would still be workable today, more than 130 years after the first edition of this book was published. Be sure to keep an eye out for our new editions of Baden-Powell's military and scouting books, which inlcude: Reconnaissance and Scouting (1884) - red leather cover Cavalry Instruction (1885) - red canvas cover Aids to Scouting - For N.-C.Os. & Men (1899) - red cover Scouting for Boys Part I (1908) - buff cover Scouting for Boys Part II (1908) - buff cover Scouting for Boys Part III (1908) - buff cover Scouting for Boys Part IV (1908) - buff cover Scouting for Boys Part V (1908) - buff cover Scouting for Boys Part VI (1908) - buff cover Scouting for Boys - All Parts (1908) - light blue cover Boy Scouts of America Official Handbook - Original Edition (1910) - khaki cover Aids to Scoutmastership (1919) - khaki cover

Book Sport

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  • Author : C. M. van Stockum
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1914
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 316 pages

Download or read book Sport written by C. M. van Stockum and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: