ROBERT S.
S. BADEN-POWELL
As a youth, Robert Baden-Powell greatly
enjoyed the outdoors, learning about nature and how to live in the
wilderness. After returning as a military hero from service in
Africa, Baden-Powell discovered that English boys were reading the
manual on stalking and survival in the wilderness he had written for
his military regiment. Gathering ideas from Ernest Thompson Seton,
Daniel Carter Beard, and others, he rewrote the manual as a
nonmilitary nature skill book and called it Scouting for Boys.
To test his ideas, Baden-Powell brought together
22 boys to camp at Brownsea Island, off the coast of England.
This historic campout was a success and resulted in the advent of
Scouting. Thus, the imagination and inspiration of
Baden-Powell, later proclaimed Chief Scout of the World, brought
Scouting to youth the world over.
Source: US
Scouting Service Project
