The Dangerous Book for Boys

Conn Iggulden · Hal Iggulden

4/2018 · Predajca: HarperCollins

Táto e‑kniha

The bestselling book—more than 1.5 million copies sold—for every boy from eight to eighty, covering essential boyhood skills such as building tree houses*, learning how to fish, finding true north, and even answering the age old question of what the big deal with girls is—now a Prime Original Series created by Bryan Cranston (Breaking Bad) and Greg Mottola (Superbad).

In this digital age, there is still a place for knots, skimming stones and stories of incredible courage. This book recaptures Sunday afternoons, stimulates curiosity, and makes for great father-son activities. The brothers Conn and Hal have put together a wonderful collection of all things that make being young or young at heart fun—building go-carts and electromagnets, identifying insects and spiders, and flying the world's best paper airplanes.

Skills covered include:

• The Greatest Paper Airplane in the World
• The Seven Wonders of the Ancient World
• The Five Knots Every Boy Should Know
• Stickball
• Slingshots
• Fossils
• Building a Treehouse*
• Making a Bow and Arrow
• Fishing (revised with US Fish)
• Timers and Tripwires
• Baseball's "Most Valuable Players"
• Famous Battles-Including Lexington and Concord, The Alamo, and Gettysburg
• Spies-Codes and Ciphers
• Making a Go-Cart
• Navajo Code Talkers' Dictionary
• Girls
• Cloud Formations
• The States of the U.S.
• Mountains of the U.S.
• Navigation
• The Declaration of Independence
• Skimming Stones
• Making a Periscope
• The Ten Commandments
• Common US Trees
• Timeline of American History

*For more information on building treehouses, visit www.treehouse-books.com and www.stilesdesigns.com or see “Treehouses You Can Actually Build” by David Stiles.

O autorovi

Born in London, Conn Iggulden read English at London University and worked as a teacher for seven years before becoming a full-time writer. Married with three children, he lives in Hertfordshire. Since publication of 'The Gates of Rome', Conn has written a further thirteen books including the wildly successful 'The Dangerous Book for Boys'.

Hal Iggulden is the artistic director of the Holdfast Theatre Company in Leicester, England.