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The dangerous book for boys
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From the Book - First U.S. edition.
I didn't have this book when I was a boy -- Essential gear -- The greatest paper airplane in the world -- Seven wonders of the ancient world -- The five knots every boy should know -- Questions about the world: Why is a summer day longer than a winter day? Why is it hotter at the equator? What is a vacuum? What is latitude and longitude? How do you tell the age of a tree? [tree rings] How do we measure the earth's circumference? Why does a day have 24 hours? How far away are the stars? Why is the sky blue? Why can't we see the other side of the moon? What causes tides? How do ships sail against the wind? Where does cork come from? What causes the wind? What is chalk? -- Making a battery -- How to play stickball -- Fossils -- Building a treehouse -- The rules of soccer -- Dinosaurs -- Making a bow and arrow -- Understanding grammar: Nouns, Verbs, adjectives, adverbs, pronouns, conjunctions, articles, prepositions, interjections, sentences, subject and object, nominative and accusative, who and whom, clauses and phrases, tenses -- Table football -- Fishing -- Timers and tripwires -- Baseballs most valuable players -- Famous battles: Thermopylae, Cannae, Caesar's invasions of Britain, Hastings, Crecy, Waterloo, Balaclava, Rorke's Drift, The Somme, Lexington and Concord, The Alamo, Gettysburg --
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.
From the Book - First U.S. edition.
I didn't have this book when I was a boy -- Essential gear -- The greatest paper airplane in the world -- Seven wonders of the ancient world -- The five knots every boy should know -- Questions about the world: Why is a summer day longer than a winter day? Why is it hotter at the equator? What is a vacuum? What is latitude and longitude? How do you tell the age of a tree? [tree rings] How do we measure the earth's circumference? Why does a day have 24 hours? How far away are the stars? Why is the sky blue? Why can't we see the other side of the moon? What causes tides? How do ships sail against the wind? Where does cork come from? What causes the wind? What is chalk? -- Making a battery -- How to play stickball -- Fossils -- Building a treehouse -- The rules of soccer -- Dinosaurs -- Making a bow and arrow -- Understanding grammar: Nouns, Verbs, adjectives, adverbs, pronouns, conjunctions, articles, prepositions, interjections, sentences, subject and object, nominative and accusative, who and whom, clauses and phrases, tenses -- Table football -- Fishing -- Timers and tripwires -- Baseballs most valuable players -- Famous battles: Thermopylae, Cannae, Caesar's invasions of Britain, Hastings, Crecy, Waterloo, Balaclava, Rorke's Drift, The Somme, Lexington and Concord, The Alamo, Gettysburg --
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.
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Iggulden, Conn Author
Iggulden, Conn Author
Iggulden, Hal Author
Iggulden, Hal Author
Wyman, Oliver Narrator
Iggulden, Conn Author
Iggulden, Hal Author
Iggulden, Hal Author
Wyman, Oliver Narrator
ISBN
9780061243585
9780062208972
9780062874979
9780061475917
9780739488256
9780007232741
9780062208972
9780062874979
9780061475917
9780739488256
9780007232741
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