Boy Scouts Handbook: The Official Handbook for Boys, The Original Edition [Paperback]

Boy Scouts of America (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: June 23, 2007

This book is essential for everyone...not just boyscouts or boys even, it is full of practical advice on just about everything...

The original Boy Scout Handbook standardized American scouting and emphasized the virtues and qualifications for scouting, delineating what the American Boy Scouts declared was needed to be a "well-developed, well-informed boy." The book includes information on the organization of scouting, signs and signaling, camping, scouting games, and a description of several scouting honors. Scouts past and present will be fascinated to see how scouting has changed in the ensuing years, and how it has stayed the same.

Product Details

• Paperback: 440 pages
• Publisher: BN Publishing; Original edition (June 23, 2007)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 9562914984
• ISBN-13: 978-9562914987
• Product Dimensions: 8.5 x 5.5 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.3 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,062,353 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great book, October 14, 2009

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Hal (Ann Arbor, Mi) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Boy Scouts Handbook: The Official Handbook for Boys, The Original Edition (Paperback)

This is a great book and a great referance for scouting. I think it is unfair to rank this book so low because someone bought the wrong book. My son reads his everyday.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The Original Edition is the Best, July 9, 2011

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SparkRevolt "S.R." (Orange County, CA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Boy Scouts Handbook: The Official Handbook for Boys, The Original Edition (Paperback)

I got a forgotten edition in the early nineties, and I loved it as a scout. When I had a son last year I was doing some mushy research and romanticizing about how awesome I will raise my kid and at the same time happened across this book and bought it. I read through it reminiscing for myself and dreaming about my son. I have to say this edition was better than the one I had all those years ago, there are no color photos but the actual book is so much richer in content.

This is not something anyone who wants to raise a boy - not one of those androgynous unisex pansies the world seems to want these days, but a real boy - should miss. I love this book, and I guarantee if you have a son, you will love it too!

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Great to see the roots of Scouts, much still useful, September 17, 2010

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Karl M. Schulte "evangelist" - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Boy Scouts Handbook: The Official Handbook for Boys, The Original Edition (Paperback)

It should have kept the old style cover, as it can confuse those who don't read the small print (they did use the old / orig one in 2010 for the 100th anniversary). BUT the info is great, shows where it all began, and the skills and knowledge is often useful today. You DO need a current Scout Handbook as well, as things have changed. This is historical and shows boys (and Dads and Moms and perhaps daughters, as the Girl Scouts/Girl Guides - England- trace their story to these roots)that they are only the latest in a long tradition, and will recognize much still taught as coming from the first Scouts and Lord Baden Powell himself, the founder of it all. I am a 20+ year Scouter, and found it of great use, with some practical use too. Boys and leaders need a reasonably new (er) BSA Handbook, Leaders a Scoutmasters Handbook, and there are many on line training programs at BSA HQ. This book gives the origen of the essence of Scouting, principles and many skills useful still. Get it and see how the journey began.

ASM Schulte