128pp. Green cloth-covered boards with gilt black lettering and decorations. 12mo. Cloth a little rubbed at spine tips, front panel slightly bowed. Some spotting on text block edges. Hint of tanning to endpapers else internally neat, clean, bright and tight. In its original dust wrapper, worn, crumbling and bumped at spine ends, a few marks, sunned over spine and some compression impressions.
Francis 'Skipper' Gidney was an early leader in the scouting movement, founding one of the first Scout Troops in 1908 when he himself was just seventeen. he was the first Camp Chief at Gilwell Park, the Scout Association's principal training and activity centre in the UK. He established the pen name 'Gilcraft' when writing articles for The Scout and the Headquarters Gazette (scouting magazine) and several other instructional books for both adult and boy scouts. The pen name continued to be used by the scouting movement after Gidney's untimely death in 1928 (as a consequence of serious war wounds sustained in the first world war).
