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Show TheSalt Lake Tribune BOOKS s vy, May 1999 THE WEST UNDER COVER BEST SELLERS Reviews of books of 1 Hardcover Fiction 1, Star Wars: Episode | The Phantom Me Br La DOKS, $2 2 White Dieander Janet Best Hikes A Contine Divide; edited We'll Meet Again. Mar ( mon & Best Hikes Schneide: pee rontinental Divi Trout Unlimited's Guide to Am cas 100 Best Trowe Streams: t i. A New Song. Jan Ka 5 The Girl Who LovedTom Gordon. Si " st of the Mounta terson. F Br John Ross: Fal BY MARTIN NAPARSTECK Bittersweet, Danielle Delacorte. § 8. Vittorio the Vampire son wood Bib Barbara Kingsolve pe 11. Soul of the Fire, Terry vd T Tara Road. Maeve Hardeover Nonfiction 1 he Greatest Generation, Tom Brokaw. Rar 2. Tuesdays sithMorrie Mitch Albom. Doub! 19.95 4. Yesterday, 1 Cried. Iyania Vanzant. Simon & Schust lla ‘Tuscany. Frances s. Broadway, $25 5. All Too Human. George hanopoulos. Little, Brown. up high, and U midst nd cast line Tracell e Lewis & Clark Trail by Julie Fanselow follows. as Lord Robert Baden-Powell gives a military- Boy Scout Handbooks Guidesto Life BY EILEEN FINAN sneak in to swim 1 told him I was a Boy Scout CHICAGO TRIBUNE and scout requirements reauire icon of scrubbed-faced, apple-pie zoodness, surely the scout's hand. bookis one of this century’s cul tural bibles. guiding generations of boys fromits first printing in 1910 through the latest edition which hit stores last month Though the Boy Scout Associa tion is often considered stodgy and static, the pages of Boy Scout handbooks throughout this ce: tury tell a story of evolution, of ng mores and morality. and of advances in medicine and technology It’s almost like readir American history book,” says Paul Myers. a handbook collector from Goshen, Ind. His nearly complete collection of 150 differ 10. Time to Hunt. Stephen Hunter. Dell Island, $7.50 11. The Eleventh Com mandment. J Archer jerPaperbacks, $7.4 12 Sudden Mischief. Rober 1. trade. Paperbacks The Pilot's Wife Anita 3. Chicken Soup for the Mother's Sow J editions includes the handbookhe used as a Boy Scout in Chicago in 52. The Boy Scout Handbookis good indicator of what's going on in culture From lessons on chiv warnings about the Inter handbookchanged with the time: At the core. however. scouting re: mained true to the oath and to the 12 laws (“a scout is trustworthy loyal, helpful, friendly, courteous kind. obedient. cheerful, thrifty brave, clean and reverent’). Theodore Moran a lifetime of scouting 1923 the handbook servec AS inspiration 9, Where the H 10. Our Dumb ¢ entury Ed t K 11. Chicken Soupfor the Teenage Soul UH 12, A Widow for One “Ve at 13, Don't Sweat the Small Stutt f d in Africa at the turnof the ntury, is known as the father of scouting and first author of the handbook in Britain In 1910, Baden-Powell’s book sa model for a quickly to the newly formed printed guide Boy Scouts of America. The next year, the BSA enlisted the help of scientific experts, as well as those in the child development and medical fields, to create what is known asthe first official edition of the Boy Scout handbook The book covered everyth and Morse code to a catalog of North American wild animals and in structions on hoy avoid consti from rank requirements pation: “Drink a draught of water upon arising Then take some body-bending ex ercises. Follow this with the sponge bath. take swim. adoles boy who has the Creator And Chicago, he was not allowec the swimming ch at Tilden High Sehe whether ven t icht ibout black childrer But Moran took the scout f bravery to hear after a tle finagling 1 got inte ol.” he sa Jana pl teacl ho let 1e body of ched his iniverse portant fluid a boy has that causes this fluic to be dis urged from the body n his strengtt ten should have [a child isa scout. It's must reading,” protection is not new The 1914 handbook included a list of recomme nded books drawn up for the BSA’s Every Boy’s Li brary campaign, The list was a reaction to the influx of tawdry novels of the day, according to Chris Goodlett, assistant curator at the National Scouting Museum in Kentucky This was the progressive era in America and there was a lot of pulp literature at the time it was cheap. and as far as the Scouts were concerned, it was not pro moting good values,” Goodlett ex. plained. The book list. which cluded The Call of the Wild, Trea sure Island, of course. the Scout handbook, was designed “to give boys another choice One of the most radical, losing membership and began an effort to recruit more urban scouts. The handbook conc trated on “urban skills” rather unfortunat is which late innot break In fact, ins tivities. As part of the approach called “the rat killing 1g to handbook Joe Price, the handbook ips on such urban dan as treating a rat bite It was sickening. fermy, what they Clark's expedition, offers advice aces to sleep and eat, and nts out nearby attractions. A blurb on the backof the book Ambose quotes him as saying he used it to help him in his research for writing Undaunted Coure wether Lewis, and evena quickper usalof the book makes clear why. It's to read. the to Utah’s berders in: one on the Colorado in wthern Arizona, another on the 1an in New Mexico, not fe ir Corners, the Middle the Salmon in Central nd the Wyoming section of the Green River just north of the city f Green River. Ross lists six n Wyoming. 1 Montana e States. Ros list trout streams ania Mountain Northe perfect qualities for a guidebook The clarity of the organization lenne of the book makes it useful to both the serious student of Lewis and Clark's Corps of Discovery and to ern California. Each entry is a mpanied by a map, listingof the siream’s highlights (type of the casual traveler who happen: to find herself in the neighbe hood of the trail Best Hikes Along the( ‘ontinencompilation of ex tal Divide i cerpts tt t have aj ed in othe Faleon guidebooks, and as such is a bit uneven. It includes 63 hikes along 3.200 miles of the divide from Northern Alberta to South ern New Mexico. The information for Baby Lake Trail, in South Central Wye s fairly typical: we're tol Generally secluded. through 1,250-foot ele Hon gain. North astiny type of trout found Y 1 wh reat ated with black hs. and Lewis ages of Trout, of th and that and white p and Clark also h. photos. (Only ree, has an index, unfortunate omi nental Divide Clark tents jon nes 1 of th nd be valtt Fina Conti do not serve as adequate for anyone fer ing s 4 Fort toryt i t nyone Trout Unt S Jot Oo k H i n handbooks In the early ibout acts of he I im ( ild be ht happe arly handboc honor App meda : these Author of Star Wars Episode |: The Phantom Menace He'll be signing copies of his book SRIIN THE STORE! OFF MANUFACTURER'S Reed PDNOFVT ON EVERYTHING STL.PLAY: Ce a Roy arr Deees For more tehineinasliUR oe 7652 South Holden Street (805 West) Mon. -Sat., 10-6 and f con Was particularly helpful to Lewi ind Clark will have to find ow ue by page) narratives. Son some mostly r¢ found on the map ; i 00k wanting t in and Lewis tailed table knowthe Each entry includes an ¢ read map and a narrative eral hundred \ ild earn bad farming. ta blacksmithin lude highlights episodes of Lewis and and piace for both the fly and spin fisher h brown, rainbow nd cutthroat trout. Great trout ites close x precise, detailed, easy omi rding to Ross, access to the is difficult but it's a great ite the present day Ore from Stephen E eit i Northern Idaho, Wash did to scouting.” Price said Me yes have alse mes, In earlier for mining, poultry i an ( and than the traditional outdoor ac TAnY habit whict dreaming of becor Scout. One of the rec hat rank was earning a erit badge. The problem yran couldn't a walk around the block be Even in these ¢ nook addressed teer Every parent Then, if possible fore breakfast every cour Moran remembers ing through his ha because he was black in co l. copious these veiled terms mplish lot of things [scouting] A member of one black Boy Scout troop: “How to Protect said Moran ofthe new books. However, the focus on youth id, thou; dT cou parents called, Your Children from Child Abuse Potential scouts are required to. read it with their parents. handbook], whether or not their Tused the handbook as a guide le ire more likely to emphasize scout safety than scout sacrifice The 1998 edition, for example. begins with a pull-out sec British count t Lord Robert Baden-Powell, a colonel in the British Army who learn everything possible Moran said. 1, Real Boys William P ‘Memoirs ¢ 4 Geisha 6. 1 Know This Much Is True HarperCollins ReganBooks, § 7. Divine Secrets of Ya Sisterhood whe scouts running into burning buildings to save someone. Nowadays ‘out handbooks American invention, scouting didn’t start here. It began in gland, and thefirst U.S. Boy Scout handbook was a near-copyof its chai ent printings of the 11 handbook on. Fawe 7. Protein Pow. Eades, M.D. anc Eades, M.D. Bantam, $6 8. TheStreet Lawyer. Joht t 9. Homeport "Nora Roberts these skills of me. I was going to do everything | needed,” he said Moran became an Eagle Scout in 1929 and is now a board member of the Chica: A Council Widely regarded as a distinctly is possible today th trail the first A ins to react the Pacific Ocean b: land used ir 1804 and 1805. beginning at the Mississippi River. across Missou Montana, If the Boy Scout is an American Stanmer Sisters. Judy Blume. De 3. You Belon to Me exactly as ti, north along what is now the Nebraska border, through 0 nd North Dakota, across For 90 Years and Cultural Bibles, Too Cuisine, Patti ta B. Randolph 9. One Day My Soul Just Opened Up. S&S Fireside 10. The Century. Peter Jen ad Todd Brewster. Dow $60 The Majors John Fein stein, Little, Brown, 12, TheArt of Happiness The Dalai Lama and Howard ( Cutler. M.D. Riverhead, $22.95 1. Dr. Atkins’ New Diet Revolution Robert © Atkins nspection to a troop of Boy Ses the organi tion he founded rough 1 ous , ' vstke ‘Phe tone Utah entry is at k Gor e Green Rive Closed Sundays 562-1! } |
