What Scouts Can Do: More Yarns

by Robert Baden-Powell

Illustrated by the Author. What is Wrong With Boys? Boxing, Football, Swimming, and Clown Stunts; Drawing, Flying, Firemanship, and Camping; Getting Good Sport-Life in the Wild; Amongst the Maoris and Red Indians; Adventures on Sea and Ice; About Stalking and the Scout's Staff; Thrift, Smoking, and Biking; The Art of 'Gooming;" Concluding Hints; Index. What Scouts Can Do is about the different activities and sports a Scout can do in his life. Powell cautions against bad habits such as smoking and encourages good habits, hobbies, and being active in the outdoors. If you are looking for ideas on how to keep your troop busy with fun activities, read this book.

Paperback

First published November 1, 1992

About the author

Robert Stephenson Smyth Baden-Powell , British general and first baron Baden-Powell, founded the Boy Scouts in 1908 and with his sister Agnes Baden-Powell founded the Girl Guides in 1910.

This also known lord and lieutenant in the Army wrote of the movement.

Charterhouse school educated Baden-Powell, who afterward from 1876 served in the Army in India and Africa until 1910. In 1899 during the second Boer War in South Africa, Baden-Powell successfully defended the besieged city of Mafeking. He wrote several also read military books for reconnaissance and training in his African years. Based on those earlier books, he wrote Scouting for Boys , which Pearson published in 1908 for youth readership. During writing, he tested his ideas on Brownsea island through a camping trip that began on 1 August 1907, now seen as the beginning.

Baden-Powell and notably Olave Saint Clair Soames, his wife, after their marriage actively gave the movement. Baden-Powell lived his last years in Nyeri, Kenya, where he died.