Official Handbook for Boys
ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Boy Scouts of America / Boy Scouts of America, PUBLISHER: Applewood Books, Over 431 million copies of the Official Handbook for Boys have been distributed since this first edition was published in . 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.