Coming in four separate volumes, Legalised Mischief gives a unique, objective account of how the UK Boy Scout movement started. Instead of giving the conventional institutional history, the author has used the many primary sources and first-hand accounts available of the boys and adults who started the movement for themselves, with very little in the way of rules and adult interference. Running around in shorts and cowboy hats while wielding a wooden pole as they marched, hid and camped in nearby woods, little did these pioneering boys know that the movement they had started would grow into a world phenomenon that still thrives over a century later. One time boy scout himself, film maker, backwoodsman and survival expert Ray Mears wrote in the foreword to volume three: Legalised Mischief is informative, precise and without over embellishment – a very readable account of a youth movement that exists in almost every country of the world. The volumes come complete with rare photographs, and chart the movement’s earliest days, leading on to such things as wartime service, jamborees, Bob-a-Job and gang shows.
A4 size
£12.00
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