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Do Your Best

How to be a Scout
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What more could you ask for, than a book stuffed like an overfilled rucksack with tips and tricks from one of the world's most celebrated adventurers? Discover how to pitch a tent, lead a team, keep fit, tie knots, memorise facts, and identify trees, stars, and... Read More
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The essential handbook for the scout in all of us -- by BEAR GRYLLS OBE, Chief Ambassador of World Scouting

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What more could you ask for, than a book stuffed like an overfilled rucksack with tips and tricks from one of the world's most celebrated adventurers? Discover how to pitch a tent, lead a team, keep fit, tie knots, memorise facts, and identify trees, stars, and birds. Learn real survival skills like putting up a tent in the wild and stashing your breakfast in the ground to keep it hot for the next morning.

Do Your Best is a warm-hearted book that takes all the skills of the Scouts and repackages them for young people who have a thirst for adventure. It encourages them to do their best in everything they do and sets them up to face life head-on, allowing them to make their mark in the world as they grow up.

It will help all young people step up, speak up, skill up, and dream big.

Chapters include: 'How to Survive'; 'How to give first aid'; 'How to protect our planet'; 'How to be organised'; 'How to be an adventurer'; 'How to be a camp cook'; 'How to live freely'; 'How to predict the weather'; 'How to be a team player'. And that's just for starters!

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781399820530

Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 07 November 2024

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: John Murray Publishers Ltd

Audience: General / adult, Teenage

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 28.0mm

Width: 152.0mm

Height: 196.0mm

Weight: 360g

Pages: 352

About the Author

Bear Grylls is the author of over 85 books that have sold more than 15 million copies worldwide, including the No. 1 bestselling Mud, Sweat, and Tears. A former Special Forces soldier and Everest mountaineer, Bear starred in Discovery's hit TV series Man vs. Wild for seven seasons, before hosting the National Geographic Channel series, Running Wild with Bear Grylls. This show has seen him take global stars such as Julia Roberts, Ben Stiller and even President Obama on adventures into the wild.

Bear has also hosted over six seasons of the BAFTA award-winning series, The Island with Bear Grylls, Hostile Planet for National Geographic, Eco Challenge for Amazon and "You Vs Wild" for Netflix.

Bear is a dedicated family man to his wife and three sons, and they live on a barge in London and a remote island off the UK.

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