Boy Scouts of America

A compendium of information relevant to the Boy Scouts. It contains information on hiking, first aid, packing food and even things on geology and botany. I used to read this book all the time when I went camping and stuff. It still holds up and is a marvelous book. It doesn't go into much depth with each thing it covers, but I don't know what you expect from a book that is only 630 pages long or so.

Going back to what I said about reading it all the time, the cover is so damaged in my copy show more that I had to duct tape the spine, so I might be a little biased. I don't even remember when I bought it, but I do know I had it when I was a Boy Scout and that was sometime in the 1990s so... show less

I was briefly in the Scouts -- made it to Tenderfoot badge. Webelos is for ten- and eleven-year-olds, at least in this 1973 printing. One thing I recall from the scouts that I enjoyed was bandaging techniques. I recall learning to do an ankle bandage. However, that is not here. I was surprised how much the activities and challenges here are about intellectual development: art projects like sculpture and mobiles, music, and many science experiments. Among the experiments is the one of getting show more an egg so slide into a bottle through its narrow neck by air pressure changes, which I saw on The Colbert Report. Of course, every now and then there are things that feel very much dated and of their time, such as "Folk music is becoming more popular all the time..." show less

Imagine Dale Carnegie's target audience are rambunctious, bra stealing, knife wielding, wholesome preteens and then multiply by infinity plus one. Yeah, that's a good place to start.

What you would expect for teen boys in the 20th century. Mostly old humorous folksongs and popular standards, many goofy parodies, and some serious songs.