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- Scouting for Girls<\/em>\u2014Adapted from Girl Guiding, by Baden-Powell, 1916.<\/li>\n
- How Girls Can Help the Empire<\/em>, by Agnes Baden-Powell.<\/li>\n
- How Girls Can Help Their Country,<\/em> by Juliet Gordon Lowe et al; adapted from AgnesB-P\u2019s book.<\/li>\n
- Scouting for Girls<\/em> (GSUSA handbook; any pre-war edition)<\/li>\n
- Juliet Gordon Low, The Remarkable Founder of the Girl Scouts<\/em>, by [historian] StaceyA. Cordery, 2013. A solid historical read of Low\u2019s life.<\/li>\n
- The Boy-Man.<\/em> By [British biographer and Oxford scholar] Tim Jeal. This is a solid work,written journalistically and addressing \u201cthe whole story\u201d about B-P, i.e., his altruism and enthusiasm but also his odd family life, the fact that he was almost certainly an oppressed gay man, the colonialism and military atrocities of the time, classism in B-P\u2019s era, etc. It\u2019s all footnoted\u2014a really good read. (I kind of feel that all scouters should read this; it helps see B-P as a real (and flawed) person and helps us avoid pedestals and blind romanticism.)
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<\/li>\n- A Woman Tenderfoo<\/em>t, by Grace Gallatin Seton, 2011. Adventure and life through as told by Ernest Thompson Seton\u2019s wife.<\/li>\n
- Braiding Sweetgrass- Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Wisdom of Plants<\/em>, by Robin Wall Kimmerer, 2015. (Recommended by Kristen Klever)<\/li>\n
- Camp Fire Girls:<\/em> The Original Manual of 1912, by Luther Halsey Gulick (1910 co- founder of Camp Fire), 1912.<\/li>\n
- The Book of Woodcraft,<\/em> by Ernest Thompson Seton, 1921or The Book of Woodcraft and Indian Lore (Legacy Edition): A Classic Manual on Camping, Scouting, Outdoor Skills, Native American History, and Nature, by Ernest Thompson Seton (paperback, 2020). As one of scouting\u2019s progenitors via his \u201cWoodcraft Indians,\u201d Seton\u2019s books are an essential read and full of sketches. Note, though, that much of his content is based on American Indian\/Native American practices and philosophies. Seton wrote the first BSA handbook, and was the BSA\u2019s first Chief Scout.<\/li>\n
- Annapurna: A Woman\u2019s Plac<\/em>e by\u00a0Arlene Blum<\/span><\/li>\n
- Black Faces, White Spaces<\/em> by\u00a0Carolyn Finney<\/span><\/li>\n
- Anna Comstock’s ‘<\/span>Handbook of Nature Study.<\/em>‘ Written in 1911 and updated around 1940??, it’s just full of golden moments.<\/span><\/li>\n
- The Skillful Hands<\/em> manual, by Albert Boekholt, with his illustrations, and also with excellent illustrations by Pierre Joubert, another universal Scouting painter, both French Scouts.\u00a0The book is an illustrated guide to handicrafts for outdoor camps and is a real gem for anyone who likes Pioneering, a noble fundamental art of Scouting, based on the use of tools and the knots and ties necessary for camping constructions and outdoor life in Nature.\u00a0The book has chapters on the necessary tools: axes, hammers, saws, knots, ropes, wooden wedges, and also shows how to build shelters, masts, enable areas for cleaning, kitchen, etc. The first edition in French is from 1950. You can download it, in pdf, in spanish with images <\/span>here.\u00a0<\/a><\/li>\n
- Small Great Things<\/em> is the most important novel Jodi Picoult has ever written. Frank, uncomfortably introspective and right\u00a0
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\u00a0n the day\u2019s headlines, it will challenge her readers. Opens up all aspects of racism. Not a kids book in anyway. Interesting and mind opening.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n- Trace: Memory, History, Race, and the American Landscape <\/span><\/em>Paperback \u2013 September 13, 2016\u00a0<\/span>by <\/span>Lauret Savoy.\u00a0\u00a0Lauret Edith Savoy writes poetically about her experiences in nature and the traces of her personal history as a Black woman, physical history of the places she visits and other voices in history about those places.
\n<\/span><\/li>\n- The Colors of Nature: Culture, Identity, and the Natural World<\/em> <\/span>\u00a0\u2013 February 1, 2011 Edited by Alison Hawthorne Deming and Lauret Savoy<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
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- How Girls Can Help the Empire<\/em>, by Agnes Baden-Powell.<\/li>\n