Scouting for Boys

A Handbook of Instruction in Good Citizenship

Robert Baden-Powell

• Publisher: Aeneas Press
• eBook ISBN:
  9785486747403
• Year: 2026

The book that started the Scout movement: camp fires, tracking, knots, first aid, observation, and a set of yarns about scouts in war and peace. Baden-Powell wrote it in 1908 out of his army manual for reconnaissance, and boys began forming patrols before there was an organisation for them to join. It is a period document of enormous consequence and a practical handbook that still works. Sixty paintings from 1824 to 1905, among them Winslow Homer and Albert Bierstadt, picture the open-air world of camping, watching, and woodcraft that Baden-Powell turned into a movement.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Copyright
• Foreword for Instructor
• Chapter I. Scoutcraft
• Part II
• Chapter II. Tracking;
• Chapter III. Woodcraft;
• Book on Stalking
• Chapter IV. Camp Life
• Book to Read
• Chapter V. Campaigning
• Endurance for Scouts
• Chapter VI. Endurance for Scouts;
• Chivalry of the Knights
• Chapter VII. Chivalry of the Knights
• Continuation of Part IV. Sobriety
• Practise Observation
• Fortitude
• Notes to Instructors
• Chapter VIII. Saving Life;
• Chapter IX. Patriotism;
• Notes for Instructors
• Notes to Instructors
• About the Author