Various Authors

The Boy Scouts Book of Campfire Stories Various Authors

Publisher Marketing: INTRODUCTION THE campfire for ages has been the place of council and friendship and story-telling. The mystic glow of the fire quickens the mind, warms the heart, awakens memories of happy, glowing tales that fairly leap to the lips. The Boy Scouts of America has incorporated the "campfire" in its program for council and friendship and story-telling. In one volume, the Boy Scouts Book of Campfire Stories makes available to scoutmasters and other leaders a goodly number of stories worthy of their attention, and when well told likely to arrest and hold the interest of boys in their early teens, when "stirs the blood--to bubble in the veins." At this time, when the boy is growing so rapidly in brain and body, he can have no better teacher than some mighty woodsman. Now should be presented to him stirring stories of the adventurous lives of men who live in and love the out-of-doors. Says Professor George Walter Fiske: "Let him emulate savage woodcraft; the woodsman's keen, practiced vision; his steadiness of nerve; his contempt for pain, hardship and the weather; his power of endurance, his observation and heightened senses; his delight in out-of-door sports and joys and unfettered happiness with untroubled sleep under the stars; his calmness, self-control, emotional steadiness; his utter faithfulness in friendships; his honesty, his personal bravery." The Editor likes to think that quite a few of the stories found in the Boy Scouts Book of Campfire Stories present companions for the mind of this hardy sort, and hopes, whether boys read or are told these stories, they will prove to be such as exalt and inspire while they thrill and entertain. For more eBooks visit www.kartindo.com Contributor Bio:  Authors, Various Nickolaus Pacione is the publisher behind Lake Fossil Press as he managed to bring two of his 13 issues of his magazine back to CreateSpace.com where he was getting good at doing the magazine as this was one of the first of the Royal Trade Paperbacks. Which was something that became his company's signature size when doing anthologies. He did that size with Tabloid Purposes IV, his memoir in the 2008 reboot (the new version is the original 2007 size, ) as Legend Keeper and his first book are 6 x 9 again but figuring out how to play with other sizes on CreateSpace.com as he will be doing an edition of The Iliad of Homer trying to have it appeal to those who listen to heavy metal and read horror. Go visit him on the world weird web at http: //np1976.codexed.com; he's been writing since October of 1990 as a horror author so do the math how long he's been at it. He reteamed with the Diary-X.com crew in 2011 and has done blogs linked up from his pinterest.com account. Where one can find that by punching in (napacione;) his science fiction writing period started at 27 years old just as he was turning 28 years of age as he became published on his birthday. The HWA would have none of it either so follow him publicly on his public facebook: https: //www.fb.com/napacione on his 38th birthday he had learned of the passing of one of his Tommy Gun Roster -- it was on that author's birthday Pacione was blindsided and had gone at a classmate for snubbing his roster -- then nailed The Sloping Companion's Robert Champion with his blog entry, Faustian Bargains. He refused to say anything when Pacione got plagiarized. Pacione called him a "fucking drug dealer" as he was promoting LSD usage -- Pacione looked up an article in Grabowsky's neck of the woods and pinterested both to drive it home. Pacione exposed him as he did with Sherri Parker/Hibbett. Issue 9 was not as talked about as Issue 10 or Issue 12 as Pacione will call these two his most memorable along with Issue 5 as that was a near ensemble also. Issue 12 was Ray Nelson plus the ensemble that is the rest of 12. Issue 9 Pacione will remember more for reuniting with his mates on The Writer's Post Journal as one of the contributor's was the art director on the issue. This issue was the one that published Pacione sometime before Tales of the Talisman was aware that Pacione was on the sister mag.