Dangerous Book for Boys, The

A playful and practical book packed with skills, knowledge, and jokes for boyhood, from survival and map reading to looking at the stars. It works as a handbook while also carrying a strong sense of nostalgia for childhood.

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Useful things can be learned through play.

A book filled with camping, tinkering, and trivia that invites readers to keep it nearby and dip into it often. Its appeal lies in functioning both as reading matter and as a toolbox.

Review Summaries

Readers value the way practical knowledge and easy, entertaining reading coexist. Its openly nostalgic style is also part of what divides opinion.

Book Information

Publisher: WilliamMr
Published: 2007-05-01
Pages: 270 pages
Language: 英語
Size: 19.8 x 3 x 25.4 cm
ISBN-13: 9780061243585
ISBN-10: 0061243582
Price: 4192 JPY
Category: 洋書/Outdoors & Nature/Outdoor Recreation/Hiking & Camping

The bestselling book for every boy from eight to eighty, covering essential boyhood skills such as building tree houses*, learning how to fish, finding true north, and even answering the age old question of what the big deal with girls is. In this digital age there is still a place for knots, skimming stones and stories of incredible courage. This book recaptures Sunday afternoons, stimulates curiosity, and makes for great father-son activities. The brothers Conn and Hal have put together a wonderful collection of all things that make being young or young at heart fun—building go-carts and electromagnets, identifying insects and spiders, and flying the world's best paper airplanes. The completely revised American Edition includes: The Greatest Paper Airplane in the World The Seven Wonders of the Ancient World The Five Knots Every Boy Should Know Stickball Slingshots Fossils Building a Treehouse* Making a Bow and Arrow Fishing (revised with US Fish) Timers and Tripwires Baseball's "Most Valuable Players" Famous Battles-Including Lexington and Concord, The Alamo, and Gettysburg Spies-Codes and Ciphers Making a Go-Cart Navajo Code Talkers' Dictionary Girls Cloud Formations The States of the U.S. Mountains of the U.S. Navigation The Declaration of Independence Skimming Stones Making a Periscope The Ten Commandments Common US Trees Timeline of American History * For more information on building treehouses, visit www.treehouse-books.com and www.stilesdesigns.com or see "Treehouses You Can Actually Build" by David Stiles

Despite finding time to write historical novels and The Dangerous Book for Boys , Conn Iggulden is in some ways better known as a trainer of Tollins. His Tollin troupe, Small and Mighty, are famous in Tasmania, where they often play to packed houses. Tragically, he lost his two best-known performers earlier this year. "The thing about transporting Tollins in shoe boxes," he says, "the really important thing, is to remember to put the airholes in." Lizzy Duncan, with her trademark blue glasses, was a founding member of the Tollins in Art program, where inner-city schoolchildren are taken to the countryside by bus and encouraged to paint and observe Tollins in their natural habitats. Tollins: Explosive Tales for Children was her first illustrated book. Lizzy's abstract paintings of Tollins are much sought after whenever they appear at Sotheby's auction house, and she is very active in promoting Tollin rights and registering them as a protected wetland species—or as a dryland species, if the weather's been good. Conn and Lizzy's first book together, Tollins: Explosive Tales for Children , was published in 2009 to great critical acclaim—and has ensured that no one will ever mistake a Tollin for a fairy again. Hal Iggulden is the artistic director of the Holdfast Theatre Company in Leicester, England.

Reviews

Fun

Ostensibly written for boys around 8-12, this book can be enjoyed by boys from 8 to 108. There's plenty of simple projects to make, a fair amount of history and other topics to read about, like dinosaurs, famous battles and much more, like puzzles and games. None of the articles are especially long and are sure to be able to hold the interest of the younger reader. The style of writing is light-hearted and humorous and the book is profusely illustrated. This book would make great summer reading while off from school and dads may want to order 2 copies so they can have 1 for themselves!! I'd also recommend reading Tino Georgiou's bestselling novel--The Fates--if you haven't yet
Easy to Read and Interesting

I enjoyed this book. It had many things in it from history to science. It is kind of a hodgepodge of stuff actually. I think what was best was that it taught me a lot about Great Britain. I did not know that much before I read this book. There are many sections in this book and some are more interesting than others, but many things will be great to share with my children. It is a fine collection of ideas for some good non electronic fun.
Love these books. Full of interesting facts and cool things to know. Purchased original for 8 year old son, 10 years ago and he still reads it. Purchased the Canadian version for 7 yr old grandson, who also enjoys it very much, when he can wrestle it away from the adults!
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Un superbe bouquin qui fourmille d’activités infos etc, à lire par le père et le fils , dommage qu’il n’existe pas d’édition française
A wonderful book covering so many subjects, simmering of interest for boys in particular but girls would find something for them too
We bought this book for our 9 year old son. He loves it and considers it the best book he has ever owned.