Scouting for Boys/Girls, by Robert Baden-Powell & Juliet Low

AprilWalters · Post by **AprilWalters** » April 10th, 2015, 12:17 pm

I know a group is doing the Boy Scout Novels, but I am interested also in the Nonfiction side of things.

Scouting for Girls:
http://www.gutenberg.org/files/28490/28490-h/28490-h.htm - the link on the Bibrec says PD in USA, but also that this 6th reprint is 1925 -- I don't know if the Girl Scouts abandoned copyright for older editions? Or if there's a scan of an earlier-to-be-safer version?

Scouting for Boys:
I couldn't see "Scouting for Boys" on Gutenberg, but it's here: http://www.thedump.scoutscan.com/s4b.html (http://www.thedump.scoutscan.com/yarns00-28.pdf for all-in-one link) - listed as 1908

Boy Scout Handbook, by the BSA - 1911
http://www.gutenberg.org/files/29558/29558-h/29558-h.htm

(Related book, for after the initial ones: How Girls Can Help Their Country, by Low & Baden-Powell! http://www.gutenberg.org/files/28983/28983-h/28983-h.htm )

I am not ready to be a BC yet, but I would love to read for any of these, as collaborative books, of others are interested!

(I'm just a brownie-scout drop-out, myself)

Kangaroo692 · Post by **Kangaroo692** » April 12th, 2015, 5:16 pm

I've been reading through Book Suggestions, and it turns out your source for Scouting for Boys is not usable due to copyright issues. I'd like to BC the Boy Scouts Handbook, if you aren't wanting too.

P.S. - I'm also very interested in scouting, and scouting history. I am a scout myself.

Kangaroo692 · Post by **Kangaroo692** » April 17th, 2015, 3:21 pm

Also Young Knights of the Empire by Baden-Powell would be good to do, it's about boy scouts. If you are interested in some Scouting Non-fiction, I've recorded a short essay on the relationship of Boy Scouts and Education (#6 in the Short Nonfiction Collection 37.). There's also a companion one for Girl Scouts if your interested. (it's not recorded for LV yet.)

Post by **dlolso21** » April 19th, 2015, 7:17 am

I have started Under Boy Scout Colors by Joseph Bushnell AMES (1878 - 1928) as a solo.

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AprilWalters · Post by **AprilWalters** » April 19th, 2015, 8:07 am

I'm more interested in the NonFiction side - maybe start with Scouting for Girls? I'm not sure if the Gutenberg version is fully PD?

http://www.gutenberg.org/files/28490/28490-h/28490-h.htm - the link on the Bibrec says PD in USA, but also that this 6th reprint is 1925 -- I don't know if the Girl Scouts abandoned copyright for older editions? Or if there's a scan of an earlier-to-be-safer version?

Kangaroo692 · Post by **Kangaroo692** » April 19th, 2015, 9:46 am

If Gutenberg says it's in the Public Domain, we trust them. They do extensive copyright checking before they release any books.

AprilWalters · Post by **AprilWalters** » April 19th, 2015, 10:29 am

Excellent!

I hope someone else would be interested in BCing it -- I don't have the brainpower until the end of semester (end of May).

Kangaroo692 · Post by **Kangaroo692** » April 19th, 2015, 11:36 am

If no one volunteers I will BC. I would rather do the Boy Scouts Handbook for right now, being a Boy Scout myself.

AprilWalters · Post by **AprilWalters** » April 19th, 2015, 1:02 pm

Either would be great - I just don't know a definite PD source for that one. (My husband's an Eagle Scout)

Kangaroo692 · Post by **Kangaroo692** » April 19th, 2015, 1:15 pm

I meant this one.

AprilWalters · Post by **AprilWalters** » April 19th, 2015, 1:52 pm

Excellent! I look forward to reading parts of this!

Kangaroo692 · Post by **Kangaroo692** » April 19th, 2015, 3:15 pm

I'm so excited I've already made the cover!

Kangaroo692 · Post by **Kangaroo692** » April 21st, 2015, 2:02 pm

Oh, and one more! Indian Scout Talks by Charles Eastman. It's basically an Native American's advice for scout.

AprilWalters · Post by **AprilWalters** » April 22nd, 2015, 7:28 am

PM me once you get one launched, so I can pick sections/chapters to record!