The Second Book To Go

Free Book To A Good Home

In the second in my series of book give aways (see Dismantling The Book Shelf) is 'An Outdoor Book for Girls'. The back of the cover reads:

'From what to wear in camp to how to identify poisonous plants, making flapjacks in the outdoors to preparing a torniquet, An Outdoor Book for Girls is the perfect manual for all those tomoys out there who would rather be on the trail than tied to the kitchen sink.'

Now we could go down a long discussion on how they've uncomfortably used quite a few gender stereotypes in their marketing material, and whether they've done it to be ironic, but the truth is it has a lot of interesting information contained within.

It was first published in 1915, and so its creation lies more in the necessity of girls needing these skills due to World War I and the lack on menfolk, rather than haphazard quasi-feminism of 21st cenury publishers - though that is responsible for its republication.

**Update**

Claimed

This title is now on it's way to Our Chalet in Switzerland. Keep visitng back for the next book on offer.