Boy Scouts Handbook

I bought this handbook to further my education of outdoor life and emergency planning. There is a ton of helpful information and because I am a girl I never got to go to Scouts. I will be studying the guide for skills I need to sharpen and just for entertainment. The projects will be a nice way to spend an afternoon. The transaction for this book was smooth and the package arrived in a timely manner.

Misleading poor excuse for a Boys Scout manual. PAY ATTENTION TO THE FIRST PAGES YOU CAN CLICK ON. 1. No copywright 2. No inside ISBN number 3. Poor illustrations. 4. Misleading information 5. Typos and mis spelling 6. Not kid friendly - an adult has to intepret. 7. Not current! Suspected reprint of a manual from 1900 NOT 2012 8. TOO EXSPENSIVE TO BE SUCH A POOR QUALITY PIECE OF... DO NOT BUY UNLESS YOU WANT TO BE DISAPPOINTED OR YOU WANT A SUBSTANDARD OLD VERSION OF THE BOYS SCOUT MANUAL.

it is pretty helpful in general terms, covering the basics of camp etiquette. I was surprised to find the boys games, those games are awesome and add a great source of activities to camping in a way I had not thought of before..

I thought I was getting the 2012 edition of the Boy Scout Handbook (for my brand-new scout!), but it turns out this is a 2012 reprint of the handbook from the early 1900's. It did say that in the fine print, but I missed it the first time. The book is interesting to read, but now I have to buy ANOTHER book to get my son what he needs.

My grandson recently joined Boy Scouts. He asked for a Boy Scout uniform and the Boy Scouts Handbook for Christmas. He was very excited to received this handbook. He said "It's bigger than the one the other boys have". I enjoyed looking through it myself before wrapping it up for him.

This is very hard to follow - or find a specific subject in - because the table of contents doesn't list subjects at all and there is NO index in the back! This is NOT like the handbooks of old where there were good pictures showing how to complete a skill and the content was divided into subsections for easier following. The pictures in here are small, fuzzy and hard to decipher. This must have been rewritten by non-English speakers as well: cooking recipes are called "Cooking Receipts" (pg 116). To make coffee, it says "for every cup of water allow a tablespoonful of ground coffee, then add one extra." Huh? One extra what?? Very poor excuse for a boy scouts handbook. Try to find an older version of this book if you need one.

When I received this book I was disappointed in the contents, I bought it to give to my daughter to study camping and survival skills, it was not at all like the one I used to use as a kid, the merit badge section is vague, little information and complex. I have been out of the BSA loop for years but I feel this book lacks what I had as a teen

I recently became a scout leader and wanted to have the current version of the scout handbook, so I bought the Kindle version thinking this was it. And at $2.99, what a bargain, right? Wrong. This is the original 1911 version. Really? How is this helpful to current scout leaders? And after so many reviews criticizing the practice of not clearly indicating-- at least as far as three years back-- in the description that this is not the current handbook, one would think Amazon would have fixed this by now. I would never have read the reviews before purchasing the book anyway (I only read them AFTER I realized it was the wrong book to see if others had the same issue), because it doesn't matter what others think of the book-- I still need it. Now I'm stuck with a book I don't need, and I still have to go out and by the current book. Waste of money. C'mon Amazon. Fix this please.

Book met expectations.

Good book to read