The Dangerous Book for Boys

The Dangerous Book for Boys
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If ever there were a book to make you switch off your television set, The Dangerous Book for Boys is it.How many other books will help you thrash someone at conkers, race your own go-cart, and identify the best quotations from Shakespeare? The Dangerous Book for Boys gives you facts and figures at your fingertips – swot up on the solar system, learn about famous battles and read inspiring stories of incredible courage and bravery. Teach your old dog new tricks. Make a pinhole camera. Understand the laws of cricket. There's a whole world out there: with this book, anyone can get out and explore it.The Dangerous Book for Boys is written with the verve and passion that readers of Conn Iggulden's number one bestselling novels have come to expect. This book, his first non-fiction work, has been written with his brother as a celebration of the long summers of their youth and as a compendium of information so vital to men of all ages.Chapters in The Dangerous Book for Boys include: The Seven Ancient Wonders of the World, Conkers, Laws of Football, Dinosaurs, Fishing, Juggling, Timers and Tripwires, Kings and Queens, Famous Battles, Spies, Making Crystals, Insects and Spiders, Astronomy, Girls, The Golden Age of Piracy, Secret Inks, Patron Saints of Britain, Skimming Stones, Dog Tricks, Making a Periscope, Coin Tricks, Marbles, Artillery, The Origin of Words and The Solar System.

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Conn Iggulden. The Dangerous Book for Boys

Conn Iggulden & Hal Iggulden. The Dangerous Book for Boys

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Contents

I Didn’t Have This When I Was A Boy

Essential Kit

The Greatest Paper Plane in The World

THE BULLDOG DART

THE HARRIER

The Seven Wonders of the Ancient World

The Five Knots Every Boy Should Know

1. THE REEF KNOT

2. THE FIGURE OF EIGHT

3. THE BOWLINE (PRONOUNCED BOW-LIN)

4. SHEET BEND

5. A CLOVE HITCH – FOR HITCHING TWO THINGS TOGETHER VERY QUICKLY

Questions About the World – Part One:

1. WHY IS A SUMMER DAY LONGER THAN A WINTER DAY?

2. WHY IS IT HOTTER AT THE EQUATOR?

3. WHAT IS A VACUUM?

4. WHAT IS LATITUDE AND LONGITUDE?

5. HOW DO YOU TELL THE AGE OF A TREE?

Making a Battery

Conkers

Catapults

Fossils

Building a Treehouse

THE PLATFORM

THE WALLS

THE ROOF

The Laws of Football

OTHER POINTS OF INTEREST

Dinosaurs

Making a Bow and Arrow

Understanding Grammar – Part One

Table Football

Fishing

Timers and Tripwires

TRIPWIRE

PRESSURE PLATE

Kings and Queens of England and Scotland

SCOTLAND

ENGLAND

FAMILY TREES OF ROYAL HOUSES FROM THE 9TH TO THE 21ST CENTURY

Famous Battles – Part One:

The Laws of Rugby Union and Rugby League

RUGBY UNION

RUGBY LEAGUE DIFFERENCES

Spies – Codes and Ciphers

Making Crystals

METHOD

Extraordinary Stories – Part One: Scott of the Antarctic

Making a Go-Cart

COST

Insects and Spiders

GRASSHOPPERS (ORTHOPTERA)

EARWIGS (DERMAPTERA)

MAYFLIES (EPHEMEROPTERA)

DRAGONFLIES AND DAMSELFLIES (ODONATA)

WATER SURFACE INSECTS (ODONATA)

BUTTERFLIES AND MOTHS (LEPIDOPTERA)

MOTHS

BEETLES (COLEOPTERA)

BEES AND WASPS

ANTS (FORMICADE)

FLIES AND MOSQUITOES

WOODLICE

SPIDERS (ARACHNAE)

Juggling

Questions about the World – Part Two:

1. HOW DO WE MEASURE THE EARTH’S CIRCUMFERENCE?

2. WHY DOES A DAY HAVE TWENTY-FOUR HOURS?

3. HOW FAR AWAY ARE THE STARS?

4. WHY IS THE SKY BLUE?

5. WHY CAN’T WE SEE THE OTHER SIDE OF THE MOON?

6. WHAT CAUSES THE TIDES?

Astronomy – The Study of the Heavens

Making a Paper Hat, Boat and Water Bomb

THE HAT

THE BOAT

THE WATER BOMB

The Laws of Cricket

THE GAME

FIELDING POSITIONS

BOWLING

BATTING

Understanding Grammar – Part Two

Girls

ADVICE ABOUT GIRLS

Marbling Paper

Cloud Formations

THERE ARE ONLY THREE BASIC TYPES OF CLOUDS

Famous Battles – Part Two:

Making Cloth Fireproof

First Aid

ARE THEY BREATHING?

IS THE HEART BEATING?

‘THE KISS OF LIFE’

CARDIAC COMPRESSION

BLEEDING AND INJURY

BREAKS

BURNS

SHOCK

NAUSEA

MEDICAL KITS

The Commonwealth

FACTS AND FIGURES

Maps of Changing Britain – Roman Britain to the Norman Conquest

Extraordinary Stories – Part Two: Admiral Lord Horatio Nelson

Building a Workbench

MORTICE AND TENON JOINTS

The Steady-Hand Tin

Five Pen and Paper Games

1. HANGMAN

2. HOUSES

3. SQUARES

4. BATTLESHIPS

5. OTHELLO

The Golden Age of Piracy

A Simple Electromagnet

Secret Inks

Sampling Shakespeare

Extraordinary Stories – Part Three: Touching the Void

Grinding an Italic Nib

Navigation

SHADOW STICK

FINDING DIRECTION WITH A WATCH

NEEDLE COMPASS

DIRECTION BY THE HEAVENS

Naval Flag Codes

The Patron Saints of Britain

1. ST GEORGE – 23 APRIL

2. ST DAVID – 1 MARCH

3. ST PATRICK – 17 MARCH

4. ST ANDREW – 30 NOVEMBER

The Moon

THE PHASES OF THE MOON – AS SEEN FROM EARTH

MOON FACTS

SOME KEY FEATURES

LUNAR AND SOLAR ECLIPSES

Skimming Stones

Pinhole Projector

Charting the Universe

Dog Tricks

Wrapping a Parcel in Brown Paper and String

Star Maps: What You See When You Look Up …

Making a Periscope

Five Poems Every Boy Should Know

IF – BY RUDYARD KIPLING (1865–1936)

OZYMANDIAS. BY PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY (1792–1822)

INVICTUS. BY WILLIAM ERNEST HENLEY (1849–1903)

VITAE LAMPADA. BY SIR HENRY NEWBOLT (1862–1938)

SEA-FEVER. BY JOHN MASEFIELD (1878–1967)

Coin Tricks

THE FRENCH DROP

THE EASY VANISH

THE BASIC VANISH

Light

Latin Phrases Every Boy Should Know

AND THE NUMBERS …

How to Play Poker

FIVE-CARD DRAW

TEXAS HOLD–’ EM

SOME OF THE ODDS FOR TEXAS HOLD–’ EM

Extraordinary Stories – Part Four: Douglas Bader

Marbles

A Brief History of Artillery

The Origin of Words

The Solar System (A Quick Reference Guide)

THE SUN. THE CENTRE OF THE SYSTEM

MERCURY

VENUS

EARTH

MARS

JUPITER

SATURN

URANUS

NEPTUNE

PLUTO

SEDNA – BUT IS IT A PLANET?

AND FINALLY, COMETS, ASTEROIDS AND OTHER DEBRIS …

The Ten Commandments

Common British Trees

THE ENGLISH OAK (QUERCUS ROBUR)

THE COMMON LIME (TILIA X EUROPAEA)

HAWTHORN (CRATAEGUS MONOGYNA)

SILVER BIRCH (BETULA PENDULA)

BEECH (FAGUS SYLVATICA)

HORSE CHESTNUT (AESCULUS HIPPOCASTANUM)

SYCAMORE (ACER PSEUDOPLATANUS)

ASH (FRAXINUS EXCELSIOR)

Extraordinary Stories – Part Five: Robert the Bruce

Hunting and Cooking a Rabbit

FINDING THE RABBIT

SKINNING THE RABBIT

PREPARING A MEAL

The Game of Chess

THE PIECES

SETTING UP THE BOARD

THE GAME

OPENING

THE MIDDLE GAME

THE ENDGAME

Tanning a Skin

The British Empire (1497–1997) ‘The empire on which the sun never sets’

Growing Sunflowers

Questions about the World – Part Three:

1. HOW DO SHIPS SAIL AGAINST THE WIND?

2. WHERE DOES CORK COME FROM?

3. WHAT CAUSES THE WIND?

4. WHAT IS CHALK?

Role-Playing Games

Understanding Grammar – Part Three

Seven Modern Wonders of the World

1. THE CHANNEL TUNNEL

2. THE GREAT WALL OF CHINA

3. THE CN TOWER IN TORONTO, CANADA

4. THE ITAIPÚ DAM

5. THE PANAMA CANAL

6. THE AKASHI-KAIKYO BRIDGE IN JAPAN, ALSO KNOWN AS THE PEARL BRIDGE

7. THE SPACE SHUTTLE

Books Every Boy Should Read

Imperial/Metric Conversion Table

LINEAR MEASURES

SQUARE MEASURES

CUBIC MEASURES

CAPACITY MEASURE

AVOIRDUPOIS WEIGHT

MONEY (BEFORE DECIMALISATION IN FEB 1971)

Illustration Credits

Also by Conn Iggulden

About the Publisher

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To all of those people who said ‘You have to include …’ until we had to avoid telling anyone else about the book for fear of the extra chapters. Particular thanks to Bernard Cornwell, whose advice helped us through a difficult time and Paul D’Urso, a good father and a good friend.

‘You hold your future in your own hands. Never waver in this belief. Don’t swagger. The boy who swaggers – like the man who swaggers – has little else that he can do. He is a cheap-Jack crying his own paltry wares. It is the empty tin that rattles most. Be honest. Be loyal. Be kind. Remember that the hardest thing to acquire is the faculty of being unselfish. As a quality it is one of the finest attributes of manliness.

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Rorke’s Drift,

the Somme

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