At the very beginning of the twentieth century, retired General Robert Baden-Powell, the hero of the siege of Mafeking, coalesced his ideas for an organization to train young British boys in scouting for the British Empire. Not a very organized thinker, Baden-Powell borrowed heavily from all sorts of unrelated resources – newspaper articles, military dispatches, fiction, and much more – and produced this, his first book on scouting. Originally published as six separate books, this book brings...
