Scouting Round the World/With Pamphlet

by Robert Baden-Powell, Baden Henry Baden-Powell

Illustrated by the Author. The Adventure Begins; On Board the 'Orama;" On the Rock; A Glimpse of France; A Visit to a Volcano; The Suez Canal; In the Red Sea; Aden, the Gate of the East; Sight-seeing in Ceylon; Malaya; Java; Bali; Australia Ahoy! 'Abo" Customs; Townsville; Brisbane and Sydney; The Jamboree at Melborne; New Zealand; Earthquakes and Glaciers; Raratong; Tahiti; San Francisco; We Reach Vancouver; 'I am a Red Indian;" A Laplander's Last Lap; A Thrilling Bison Chase; The 'Mounties;" On a Fox Farm; In Newfoundland; The United States and Home. Scouting Round the World is Powell's personal day-by-day account of his eight month tour around the world. Read about the National Jamboree at Melbourne. Starting in London and ending in the United States, Powell's tour will teach you the different customs of the Boy Scouts in many different cities, states, and countries. As a world-wide youth program, with world-wide values, this book exemplifies Powell's dedication to all youths.

192 pages, Paperback

First published November 30, 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.