Scouting for Boys

Scouting for Boys

Cover of first part of Scouting For Boys, January 1908
Author	Robert Baden-Powell
Illustrator	Robert Baden-Powell
Cover artist	John Hassall
Country	United Kingdom
Language	English
Subject	Scouting
Genre	Boy's handbook
Published	24 January 1908[1] Horace Cox
OCLC	492503066

Scouting for Boys: A handbook for instruction in good citizenship is a book on Boy Scout training, published in various editions since 1908. Early editions were written and illustrated by Robert Baden-Powell with later editions being extensively rewritten by others. The book was originally a manual for self-instruction in observation, tracking and woodcraft skills as well as self-discipline and self-improvement, about the British Empire and duty as citizens with an eclectic mix of anecdotes and unabashed personal observations and recollections. It is pervaded by a degree of moral proselytizing and references to the author's own exploits. It is based on his boyhood experiences, his experience with the Mafeking Cadet Corps during the Second Boer War at the siege of Mafeking, and on his experimental camp on Brownsea Island, England.