Paddle Your Own Canoe or Tip for Boys

Robert Baden-Powell

• Publisher: Research Press
• Year: 2015
• eBook ISBN:
  9781473394902
• Print ISBN:
  9781447411727

Paddle Your Own Canoe or Tip for Boys is a wonderful guidebook written with the intention of inspiring young boys to embrace outdoor activities, offering them guidance on what they can do and how they can do it effectively, safely, and enjoyably. In a time when children have forgotten the lost art of tree-climbing or the joys of rural exploration and instead spend their time staring at a computer screen or tapping away at tablet computers, this little book has become more valuable than ever. Filled with information on interesting and exciting out-door pursuits, Paddle Your Own Canoe or Tip for Boys is a great book for getting young boys interested in the outdoors and is not to be missed by discerning parents. This book has been elected for modern republication due to its timeless educational value, and we are proud to republish it now complete with a new introduction on the subject.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title
• Copyright
• Robert Baden-Powell
• Foreword
• Contents
• 1. Observation and Deduction. Ants as Detectives
• 2. Self-Education. How to learn Geography
• 3. On Not Being a Silly Ass. The Ass-trologers
• 4. Common Sense—and how it built a Bridge
• 5. Resourcefulness. Pioneering Pygmies
• 6. Endurance. Arctic Explorers
• 7. On Being Accurate. Hippos; and the Importance of a Hair’s breadth
• 8. Patience. Don’t be in too much of a hurry
• 9. Gratitude. It may save you from a Snake-bite on the nose
• 10. Courtesy—as shown by Car-drivers
• 11. Goodwill—in Rhinos and Elephants
• 12. Honour. Whacking the Goat
• 13. Keeping Your Nerve—even when Rhinos galumph
• 14. Courage—of Lions and Lion-hunters
• 15. Keeping Your Pecker Up. Bravery against Odds
• 16. Humour. A lesson from Algernon
• 17. Don’t Swank—or you may have to live in a Rabbit-hole
• 18. On “Sticking it Out” in a drain-pipe
• 19. How to be Fit. Lessons from men and beasts
• 20. The Duty of Service, and how to Be Prepared
• 21. Helpfulness—taught by an Elephant
• 22. Responsibility—learned in a Scout Patrol
• 23. Self-Sacrifice. Heroes of the Antarctic