The Double Dangerous Book for Boys

by Conn Iggulden

Overview

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Dangerous Book for Boys comes the long-awaited sequel – another action-packed adventure guide featuring full-color illustrations, perfect for dads, grads, and boys of all ages.

The Double Dangerous Book for Boys is a treasure trove of the essential activities and skills that have defined generations of boyhoods, from building a treehouse to fishing to finding true north.

• Designed with the same nostalgic look and feel as the first book, this companion volume includes more than 70 new chapters and important skills, fascinating historical information, and captivating stories, including:
  
• How to pick a padlock
  
• Making a Flying Machine
  
• Tying a Windsor Knot
  
• Advice from Fighting Men
  
• Questions About the Law
  
• Chess Openings
  
• Making Perfume
  
• Maps of Historic Empires: British, Ottoman, Genghis, Persian, Medes, Babylonian, Alexander
  
• Great Speeches
  
• Forgotten Explorers
  
• How to Wire a Plug and Make a lamp
  
• Writing a Thank You Letter
  
• Polishing Shoes
  

Parents looking to reduce screen time and rediscover the great outdoors can use this book to fill weekend afternoons and summer days with wonder, excitement, adventure, and fun—learn to build go-carts and electromagnets, identify insects and spiders, and fly the world’s best paper airplanes.

This charming and practical guide, packed with hundreds of full-color charts, maps, diagrams, and illustrations, will ignite the imagination and stimulate curiosity, and provide grandfathers, fathers, sons, and brothers the opportunity to deepen their bonds. Conn Iggulden has at last put together a second wonderful collection that is the essence of boyhood.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780062857972
Publisher:	HarperCollins
Publication date:	10/08/2019
Pages:	320
Sales rank:	75,752
Product dimensions:	7.50(w) x 9.70(h) x 1.00(d)

About the Author

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'.

 

Editorial Reviews

2019-08-26
A new compendium of helpful skills, projects, puzzles, quotes, historical anecdotes, and other miscellany that add quality to life…if not necessarily length.

"The accumulation of knowledge is one of life's subtle pleasures," writes the co-author of The Dangerous Book for Boys (2007), collaborating now with his sons instead of his brother Hal. In that tongue-in-cheek spirit they offer up a fresh array of rewarding reading—beginning with detailed, practical instructions for picking a lock followed by an account of the experiences of Ernest Shackleton that highlights his extraordinary leadership skills. Tucking in well-placed photos or diagrams, they go on to recommend poems to memorize, describe select famous world empires and how to make lasagna, and, just to prove that the title is not mere hyperbole, suggest numerous ways of provoking "Interesting Chemical Reactions" with easily available materials. For what it's worth, the authors seem to have tested all of these activities themselves, and they add cautionary notes based on their experiences. Many of this import's U.K.-specific entries have been Americanized, but some, such as how to get a shotgun or wire an electric plug have not and may be of less use (not to say even more "danger") on this side of the pond. With very rare exceptions the historical incidents, figures, and cultural defaults are white and Eurocentric, but at least girls willing to disdain the title and brave the pervasive male gaze are not specifically discouraged from harvesting what they might.

Salutary fare for readers who, like the authors, believe that "we should all know a few basics." (Nonfiction. 12-15)

Kirkus Reviews