DARING ACTIVITIES. OUTDOOR SKILLS. WILD-EYED ADVENTURES. In 1882, Daniel Beard, co-founder of the Boy Scouts of America(R), wrote the ultimate adventure guide, The American Boy's Handy Book. Now the author's most exciting projects, excursions and challenges are presented bigger and better than ever in this newly designed large hardcover edition. Here are the author's original descriptions and personal illustrations of timeless adventures that combine good fun and innocent mischief while teaching boys how to be constructive, creative and courageous and become: *The Boy Inventor *The Boy Gamer *The Boy Hunter *The Boy Camper *The Boy Fisherman *The Boy Naturalist *The Boy Boater
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Daniel Beard, a founding member of the Boy Scouts of America, firmly believed in letting boys make their own playthings with their hands, to encourage them to value their own work and gain skills needed to successfully invent, construct and dream. This is truer today than ever before-in a world of video games and cell phones. Welcome the joys of childhood ba
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