The dangerous book for boys
Record details
- ISBN: 0062208977
- ISBN: 9780062208972
- ISBN: 0061243582
- ISBN: 9780061243585
- ISBN: 9780061243585 (alk. paper)
- ISBN: 0061243582 (alk. paper)
- ISBN: 9780061243585
- ISBN: 0061243582
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Physical Description:
xi, 270 pages : illustrations (some color), maps (some color) ; 26 cm
print - Edition: 1st U.S. ed.
- Publisher: New York : Collins, ©2007.
Content descriptions
General Note: | Originally published: London : HarperCollins, 2006. |
Formatted Contents Note: | The rules of Rugby Union and Rugby League -- Spies: codes and ciphers -- U.S. Naval flag codes -- Making crystals -- Extraordinary stories: Scott and the Antarctic ; The Wright Brothers ; Touching the Void ; Douglas Bader ; Robert the Bruce -- Making a go-cart -- Insects and spiders -- Juggling -- Astronomy -- Making a paper hat, boat, and water bomb -- Navajo Code Talker's Dictionary -- Girls -- Marbling paper [marbled paper] -- Cloud formations -- First aid -- The 50 states -- Map of the United States -- Mountains of the United States -- Making cloth fireproof -- Building a workbench -- Pocket light -- Five pen-and-paper games -- The golden age of piracy [pirates] -- A simple electromagnet -- Secret inks -- Sampling Shakespeare -- Grinding an italic nib -- Navigation -- The Declaration of Independence -- The Moon -- Skipping stones -- Pinhole projector -- Charting the universe -- Dog tricks -- Wrapping a package in brown paper and string -- Star maps: what you see when you look up -- Making a periscope -- Seven poems every boy should know -- Coin tricks -- Light -- Latin phrases every boy should know -- How to play poker -- Marbles -- A brief history of artillery -- The origin of words -- The solar system -- The Ten Commandments -- Common trees -- Chess -- Hunting and cooking a rabbit -- Tanning a skin -- Timeline of early American history -- Growing sunflowers -- Role-playing games -- Seven modern wonders of the world -- Books every boy should read -- Standard and metric measurements -- Dangerous Book for Boys badges. |
Summary, etc.: | For every boy from eight to eighty, covers 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 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.--From publisher description. |
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Subject: | Handbooks, vade-mecums, etc Amusements Recreation Boys Miscellanea Amusements Recreation Boys Miscellanea |
Available copies
- 47 of 50 copies available at Bibliomation. (Show)
- 1 of 1 copy available at Rowayton Library.
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Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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Rowayton Library | 031.02 IGG (Text) | 33625000328562 | Adult Nonfiction | Available | - |