Scouting For Girls
The Mountains Of Navaho

“I remember my youth and the feeling that will never come back anymore, the feeling that I could last forever, outlast the sea, and all the men; the deceitful feeling that lures us on to perils, to love, to vain effort-to death; the triumphant conviction of strength, the heat of life in the handful of dust, that glow in the heart that with every year grows dim, grows cold, grows small and expires – and expires too soon, too soon before life itself”
Joseph Conrad 1902

Scouting for boys - A handbook for instruction in good citizenship
Robert Baden-Powell (1st pub 1908).

An all-time bestseller, it is both a handbook and a philosophy for a way of living that replaces self with service, puts country before individual, and duty above all. As well as practical instructions on how to light fires, stalk men and animals, it includes sections on chivalry, self-discipline, self-improvement and citizenship.

Infused with the nostalgia of innocent childhood and boyish adventure, yet suggestive of maturation towards experience, adulthood and disillusionment, ‘Scouting for Girls’ explores this motif through music, pictures and stories.

Roy Stride is the lead singer for CAPE, unarguably the finest Rock and Roll band in the world. Occasionally, and only very occasionally, he would tire from the continual onslaught of the sex, drug and alcohol fuelled lifestyle of the rock and roll world, and yearn for something gentle, innocent and light. During a respite in the bands schedule he retired to his studio and invented Scouting for Girls. He is 25 years old, lives in London and looks like this.

‘Almost all writers have as their motif, more or less disguised, the passage from childhood to maturity, the clash between the thrill of expectation, and the disillusioning knowledge of the truth. "Lost illusion" is the undisclosed title of every novel.’
Andre Maurois