Scouting for Boys

The book Scouting for Boys was written by Robert Baden -Powell, the founder of the Boy Scouts. It was published in 1908 and is the worldwide Scout movement is based. Scouting for Boys counts with a total circulation of about 150 million copies of the most printed books in the world.

Content

Baden -Powell processed in his work not only the impressions which he had made as an officer with young scouts especially in the defense of Mafeking, but also the experience he had gained in the first scout sample bearing 1907 on Brownsea Iceland. In the book, Baden -Powell describes in nine chapters, his idea of the scout one.

The book is divided into campfire sections that were suitable to be read aloud in group lessons or just around the campfire. At first it appeared as a serial story in a newspaper. After the first publication as a book, it was still frequently revised by Baden -Powell, which is why there are substantive differences between the various editions.

It replaced the military reference book Aids to Scouting, which contrary to its concern also found many young readers.

German broadcasts

The book was broadcast under the title The Boy Scouts Book 1909 by Alexander Lion and Maximilian Bayer in the German; on Scouting for Boys based, it has been changed substantially from the authors. Was published in 1911, a further source close to transmission of Karl Hellwig. However, his book Small scouts remained largely unnoticed, since large parts of the German Scout Movement had already decided to Lion'sche transmission as a working basis.

More recent German -language editions carry regardless of the translator the title scouts. They are generally based on the 1923 first edition appeared in Zurich of the Swiss League scouts.

Bibliographic evidence

English editions

  • Scouting for Boys. Horace Cox, London 1908 ( January to March). - First edition; appeared in six each about 70-page booklets.
  • Scouting for Boys. C. Arthur Pearson Ltd., London, 1908 -. First complete edition, 288 pages.
  • Scouting for Boys. World Brotherhood Edition. Boy Scouts of America for and on behalf of the Boy Scouts International Bureau, New York, NY, 1946 -. Final version, 314 pages.
  • Scouting for boys. Oxford University Press, Oxford, inter alia, 2004, ISBN 0-19-280547-9. - Annotated historical-critical edition, edited by Elleke Boehmer, LVII and 382 pages

German editions

  • Alexander Lion ( ed.): The Scout book. After General Baden- Powell's " Scouting for boys". Publisher of the medical Rundschau Gmelin, Munich 1909 - Influential transmission that shaped the German Scouting prevail.; with substantial participation by Maximilian Bayer; XII 340 pages. Later editions titled Young German Boy Scout book.
  • Karl Hellwig: The little scout book. Official Handbook of the "German spy corps " and the Girl Scouts of the "German migrant bird " ( = miniature library for sports and games. Vol. 47, ZDB - ID 1453576-2 ). Grethlein, Leipzig 1912 -. Near source transmission with little influence, 107 pages.
  • Robert Baden- Powell Scouts. A handbook for education for efficient citizen. Published by the Polygraphic Institute, Zurich 1923 -. Translated by Arnold Schrag of the Swiss Scouts, 367 pages.
  • John Dörrast: Handbook for boys. The Boy Scouts Baden- Powell's retold. Pflaum, Munich 1948 -. 96 pages.
  • Robert Baden -Powell: How to become Boy Scouts. A handbook for the training of good citizens by operating it in the great outdoors. All-time - ready publishing of the Boy Scouts of Austria, Vienna 1955 -. Translated by Otto Sulzenbacher for the Boy Scouts of Austria, 343 pages.
  • Robert Baden- Powell Scouts. George -Verlag, Dusseldorf 1977 -. Translated by Christa Brüchle and edited by Peter Bleeser for the German Scout Association of Saint George, 302 pages
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