Scouting for Boys

Complete and unabridged, with 60 full-page plates by George Catlin, Asher Brown Durand and Albert Bierstadt. 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 ...