Powell Books

I picked up the book expecting the typical drivel so often encountered in this genre. Happily mistaken and captivated I was to discover the level of research and insight invested into this gem. Written with unbridled enthusiasm and discerning charm, Literary Paris is a must read. Bravo, Ms. Powell, bravo!

Wonderful book for bringing an additional literary and historical depth to the world's most beautiful city. The perfect book to carry along as you stroll from cafe to cafe.

I received this as a gift and loved it. I will review it again before my next trip to Paris (AFTER the US/Euro exchange rate moves in the US dollar direction,) and may take it with me. You can read a few pages at a time and this is great because I like to read a bit before bedtime. Since the entries are short you can finish one or two at a time. I got the feeling it would be great to travel to Paris with the author.

There are plenty of guide books to Paris, whatever your preference. Powell's attempt to provide a view of Paris through the lives of writers who have lived there is an inspired idea, as so many of these people have helped to shape Paris in our imaginations. It is delightful to think of walking through the streets of the city and thinking about the writers who have lived there. While the Cafe de Flore is happy to acknowledge that Sartre and de Beauvoir hung out there, it's more fun to think that one can find where Arthur Rimbaud invaded the life of Paul Verlaine, or where Janet Flanner liked to hang out to hold court. Beautifully designed and illustrated, I know I'll be using it on my next trip to Paris to enliven neighborhoods I thought I already knew.

I have been reading New Age material for many years
and found "Magic Cat Explains Creation" by Yael Powell, Doug Powell, a real stand out. Magic Cat expesses himself in simple and compelling terms and gets one to see things diffrently for sure . Very remarkable, don't miss it!

If you love animals, you'll love this book! It's THE best book on animal-human communication I've ever read.

Magic Cat is an enlightened and wise feline being. He shares his wisdom, his profound and exciting insights with his "owner," Yael Powell. This book, produced by Yael, with her husband, Doug, and their dear friend and editor, Shanna Mac Lean, is yet another delightful addition to the list of books in their Say YES to Love Series.

Have you ever wondered what animals think of us humans? How do they view eating meat? Have you ever grieved for a beloved pet? What happens to our pets when they die? Will we ever see them again? What is the soul purpose of animal-human relationships?

You'll find the answers to those questions and many more in this enchanting and fascinating book.

John Cali
http://www.greatwesternpublishing.org

I have been reading the beautiful book that Yael Betheim and her Magic Cat so co-transparently parented into print, and it has left soft radiant pawprints and purrs in my heart. This particular book has reached me, or I have received it, most deeply of all Yael's published works to date. It touches me in a primal place and I will be savoring and sharing it with
others for some time to come. I like to read it with our cat Dougal curled up on the bed near to or nestled next to me. I would have previously written "asleep next to me," but this book has awakened me to the fact of his presence (Being-as-Dougal) whether his eyes are open or closed. I'm grateful
for this book, which is a cat-chment place of great treasures
on so many levels for us All.

Oh, my dear friends... I just finished Magic Cat Explains Creation last night and I can only say, Wow! I wept for the first 100 pages. Yael and Doug Powell of the Say YES to Love books have once again been pure conduits for a most profound message of Love! Magic Cat's messages through Yael are deeply insightful and touch the very altar of the human heart!

I have yet to meet a soul upon this planet whose life has remained untouched by the divine love of an animal. Almost every spiritual tradition has promised that one day the animals would communicate with us. At long last, the time has come. Magic Cat's wisdom and spiritual vision will have you weeping too in recognition of the truths he's shared. Thank you, thank you, dear Magic Cat (although I'm sure he has received my gratitude already through the ethers).

And just when I thought this book couldn't get any better, I came to the profound Message from God that is in the appendix of the book (A Letter from God to Humanity on Creating a World of Love, received by Yael on February 25, 2003.) I have never been so moved in my entire life. In a few short pages, the whole of the cosmos and the reason for our existence came into perspective as it never had before. This communication is perhaps the most important I have received in my life. I know it will be the same for you, and of course will send you looking for the Powells' other amazing books in the Say YES to Love Series.

Angelina Heart,
author of The Teaching of Little Crow, heartflamepublishing.com

We have given this books to friends with young children and love reading it with our daughter. I love the gentle, intuitive spirituality of this book. It's a subtle, totally non-denominational reminder of our own connection to the world around us. The pictures are beautiful and the prose is simple, but elegant. I love Amy Powell's books as an alternative to so many of the "noisy" and overstimulating books out there for kids. Powell's style is warm and thoughtful, and never condescending to children. This book, in particular, emphasizes something that children seem to understand better than many adults--we are all part of something bigger than ourselves. Thanks, Amy Powell, for a wonderful and timeless book!!

My young cousin loved this book due to its clever rhyming and intriguing pictures. The visual stimuli kept her interesting from the beginning, but through the rhyming, the lesson taught her about her interaction with her surroundings.

My children, boy and girl, have really enjoyed this delightful book. They are amused by the rhymes, love the colorful pictures and are amazed by the magical ideas of connectedness presented in the book. I would recommend it to anyone with children that are curious about nature and self.

Wow, I have been looking for great kids' books like this that are both fun and full of substance...but not necessarily religious. Pondering the concepts in this book are even spiritually deep for an adult....but don't get me wrong, they are so simple, so poetic and right up my little girl's alley. She loves the silly imaginative play on every page and tells me where she finds "me" all throughout our day. Turns out, she is a spiritual whiz!!

First - I am a collector of what is commonly called "Breweria" - that is, all things related to beer and the brewing industry (cans, bottles, trays, ads..you get the idea). I became aware of this work through a discussion of the book in an internet forum and "had" to have it in my beer book collection.

After reading the book I didn't know whether to bust out laughing or be in a state of total outrage. I am leaning, however, towards laughter. The author's analysis of the labeling and marketing of beer and malt liquor ranges from fascinating and even bordering on credible to absolutely gut-busting. For instance, he analyzes the name "Schlitz" yet makes no reference to the fact that Joseph Schlitz was a German immigrant who started a brewery in the 19th century. In another example, he would have the reader believe that Miller Brewing's "Red Dog" Beer was marketed entirely toward the African-American population. Perhaps if he had done any legit research he would have known that the beer was also marketed heavily to NASCAR fans (a group not well known for African-American representation!). These are just a few examples - don't want to spoil it for you!

As with most books of this genre, it is filled with strange machinations of numbers and letters and other contrived means of establishing the author's point.

If you buy any of this - you'll be outraged. But you'll more than likely be amused.

If you love this type of conspiracy theory book - buy this one, you'll love it. If you collect breweria books, this will make a great (and possibly unique) addition to your collection and might even get you interested in 40's - I recently started collecting in this arena and find it fascinating myself. So head down to your local corner store, pick up a couple 40's and sit back for a great easy read (sorry Coach, they sell 40's other places than in "the hood").

Yes, you are correct in that -to some extent- we are able to choose what we consume. Corporations market their products to specific audiences, people who are likely to buy the product. Thats why sugared cereal commercials are aired on Saturday-mornings. Things get a bit dicey, however, when we begin to market toxic substances in this same way.

For someone who claimed to be African American, I found it quite interesting that you often referred to the black communities as "their communities". You must be one of "those" african americans. You know the ones who are either too comfortable or too ignorrant to beleive that their may be some sort of systematic plan to hold the poor down. Notice I said poor, not black or "ghetto" communities, poor people. It's "those" type of blacks that aren't ready to admit that racism in this country is a strong as it ever was. It's "those" type of blacks that finger point once they get beyond arms length of the struggle that poor people go through. It's "those" types of african americans that will beleive whatever Fox news or Peter Jennings reports, but can't entertain the progressive and educated opinions brought forth by Mr. Powell.

It is about economics, but it's also about who profits from these economics. Who profits? Is it you Mr. "African American"? I doubt it. The same ones are profiting today as were profitting since the 16th century. The same ones who figured out way earlier than you did that it is about economics, and the only way to sustain that economic hunger is to make the masses consumer starved. You can put fake nails, alcohol, drugs and guns in ANY community of ANY ethnicity and if there's nothing there except unemployment, poverty and a systematic blueprint for exactly that to happen, then you'll get the same results everytime.

This is a class society, and for that to work someone has to be in the lower class. Last time I checked there were more non-blacks in that category than anyone else, but that gets past some of "those" african americans. They'd rather fall victim to mass media and pop culture and look at "those" people with disdain and contempt. Pay no mind to who is profiting from this blueprint of destruction, just focus on judging the victims of their genius economic plans. As long as you do that you'll never really know who is paying the ultimate price for Americas economic growth. It's the same ones that have been paying the price since 1558.

I found this book to extremely interesting. Not only is it an excellent addition to the other conspiracy literature that is available, but it lends a new twist to the victim theories that many African Americans subscribe to.

The market and people move to wherever money is made. If money is made in the black community in alcohol, drugs, fake nails, check cashing places or weapons, those are the products that will be sold. It isn't conspiracy, it's economics. What you choose to buy determines what will be sold.

You and your communities are only victims if you choose to be. If you choose to buy alcohol, drugs, weapons, fake nails and use check cashing places, that is what will be sold.

And, how do I know............I'm African American too.

It often amazes me that most students get out of high school with no appreciation of how science is done or how difficult it is to extract information from nature. In James Powell's book, "Mysteries of Terra Firma: The Age and Evolution of the Earth" these themes are repeated again and again as we learn how difficult it was to get away from Lord Kelvin's 20-100 million year estimate of the earth's age, escape the idea that the continents were stable and did not move, and counter the view that asteroids could not have caused the moon to be ejected from the earth. A similar debate is now raging over global climate change, but eventually all of these arguments fall to the weight of evidence. Now (as Powell says) we know that Lord Kelvin was wrong and all of the modern estimates for the earth's age are concentrated around 4.5 billion years. We know that sea-floor spreading, continental motion, and volcanoes and earth quakes, are all tied together by convection in the earth's mantle. We also know that many asteroids and comets have struck the earth, other planets and our moon, and that several caused great disruptions, including separating materials from the planet struck as was the likely case with our own moon. This was brought closer to home by the spectacular impact of Comet Shoemaker-Levy's on the atmosphere of Jupiter, an event who's resulting marks on Jupiter's clouds could be observed (as I did) easily with a ten-inch telescope.

On my cabinet I have a rock from South Africa dated at 3.5 billion years. The depth of that long corridor of time is truly difficult to even comprehend, but the secret of this little rock was one of those hard-won from nature. The history of that struggle is exactly the story we need to teach in order to make science understandable to young people. Powell's book is a good place to start.

Mysteries of Terra Firma: The Age and Evolution of the Earth written by James Lawrence Powell is a very well-written, cogent, lucid, and extremely lively book that is about the age of the Earth. Through discoveries in deep time, tectonics and extraterrestrial impacts, the mysteries of time, drift and change have established with admirable clarity how geologists came to discover the true nature of the Earth.

This book is a story of three parts... time, drift and change these three profound stories have affected the Earth and life as we know it today. Without knowledge is these three disciplines the true nature of our Earth would still elude us.

Have you ever asked yourself, "How old is the Earth, the Universe? How firm the the Earth? How do meterorites affect the Earth? Well, this book takes on these tough questions and gives us some startling answers.

First, time... How can we understand the ground on which we walk, or how that ground holds the key to the greatest secerts of deep space time. Lord Kelvin and Ernst Rutherford helped set the stage for the calculations for the solution of the age of the Earth. When they were finished a number 4.5 billion years of geologic time was the answer... the universe is 13.5 billion years old, enough time for our solar system to die and another to be reborn. If this were all condensed to a 24 hour clock, man would only be found on the very last second.

Second, drift... Without drift, life would no exist. What the author is talking about is plate tectonics or continential drift. Believe it or not this theory was not accepted when first proposed, by a German meteorologist and polaer explorer Alfred Wegener, espicially in the petroleum industry. So, how firm is Terra Firma... well that depends upon where your perspectives lay... but for all intents and purposes, yes the Earth moves.

Third, chance... Throughout geologic time meteorites have been bombarding everything in the solar system. From a grain of sand to a mountain-sized meteorite have flown through space, struck the Earth, killed the dionsaurs and almost everything else on Earth, leaving a very small mammal the size of a hamster as our ancester. Powell says, "The chance of that happening again is essentially zero."

Ernst Mayr says much same thing, "...highly intelligent life originated only 300,000 years ago, in a single one of the more than one billion species that had arisen on Earth. These are indeed long odds."

If you are looking for a book about the study of the Earth, geology, and plate tetonics, this is a very good choice considering no more than the rocks beneth our feet.

James Powell has a rare talent for explaining the concepts of science while making the story fresh and exciting. As in his previous book, Night Comes to the Cretaceous, Powell explores the revolutions in our understanding of the Earth's history that took place during the 20th century. Here he selects the three really big discoveries that transformed our view of the world on which we live: dating the Earth (the discovery of deep time), developing the theory of plate tectonics, and recognizing the role of impacts by comets and asteroids that shape the surfaces of both the Earth and the other planets and satellities. I found this to be one of the best books about science that I have read in recent years -- factually accurate yet crafted with the skill of an adventure story.

Mysteries of Terra Firma by James Lawrence Powell, author of Night Comes to the Cretaceous, is an excellent introduction to what are arguably the science of geology's greatest contributions to humankind's knowledge of the universe. These great discoveries are the age of the Earth [4.55 billion years old], the theory of plate tectonics, and the knowledge that the impacts of comets and asteroids are an important force in our solar system, including here on Earth. In each of the three sections of the book, Powell takes the reader through the convoluted histories of each of these great discoveries, showing geology and the geologists, warts and all. These histories illustrate the fact that science can be slow and imperfect, but ultimately does a good job at pushing our knowledge of the universe forward. Mysteries of Terra Firma is an excellent read and should be enjoyed by anybody with an interest in geology, the Earth, or the history of science. I also recommend that college and high school earth science teachers append this title to their supplementary reading lists as soon as possible. I thoroughly enjoyed Mysteries of Terra Firma and I think you'll enjoy it, too.

These books are wonderful to read and are filled with many full color pictures! They are just right for children to read or even just browse through the pictures. Recommended!!!

I also grew up with these wonderful encyclopedias. They helped me discover and appreciate history too. I saved the set for my own children and just now have brought them out for my 2 sons. In another review, it was mentioned that the series was thought to have ended with the 1960's. And yet another review indicated that the series was thought to have ended with volume 15 or so. I can confirm that the series went as high as volume 24 (which covers year 1975 only). I own volumes 1-18 and snatched up volume 24 a few years ago in Milwaukee. I would love to locate and purchase volumes 19-23 and wonder if the series stopped at volume 24...

I too was brought up in the '60s With these in my bedroom. They were a constant source of amazement and intrigue for me as I was growing up. I had lost all my old ones as I moved around the country and was lamenting the loss as my kids were growing up. I happened across a full set in very good condition in a resale shop in Waurika, OK. and bought them on the spot. These volumes were published before the days of "Political Correctness" and prior to revisionist history as taught in our schools today. Not only are the true to history but they're great fun to read. At 41 years old I still learn something new from them as I read them With my 10 year old son. If you can search and scrounge around old garage sales, resale shops or used book stores to find these, they are definitely worth it. By the way the last volume in the set I found was 1970, I think they were putting out yearbook editions since 1967, so there may be even more volumes. Good Hunting!!

This is not one book, but a set of about 15. Someone in my family had them when I was about seven years old, (in the 1960's) and they were instrumental in teaching me to appreciate and love history. I had forgotten about the series until I recently found one of my old one's. It covered the time period 1940-45. The series ended, I believe, in 1965 or so. Nonetheless, an EXCELLENT way to teach children about American history. Lots of good drawings and well written prose.

Phil Rickman is one of my favorite authors and his series with Rev. Merrily Watkins are a really good read. He is a British author, not well known in USA but really deserves to be. You care about the characters and the hint's at paranormal activity are cleverly written, so that there might just be a "normal" or rational explaination for the events. His other novels, non Merrily Watkins, are excellent for anyone who enjoys the thrill of a well researched, well written paranormal novel. My absolute number one pick of his novels is "December". I have gone back to this over the years and read it again and again, it never gets old.

This sixth in Rickman's Merrily Watkins series picks up after several of the more dramatic volumes in the series and finds the diocesian exorcist and minister of Ledwardine confronting a thorny problem. Merrily has started having informal evensong services and unexpectedly, one of the attendees is cured of a fatal tumor. Merrily isn't ready to accept this sudden sign of the Lord's blessing at face value, but her congregation does. Now she must deal with her and the church's mixed attitude toward healing. Which, she discovers, many think goes hand in hand with exorcism.

The other piece of good/bad news is that Jane, Merrily's daughter and chief critic, has managed to get a weekend job as waitress and general assistant at a struggling new inn that is trying to use its tenuous connection to Arthur Conan Doyle and the hound of the Baskervilles to build a clientele. All of this on the forbidding border with Wales where, as we are often reminded, long memories and getting even is a way of life. The legends of the area include a number of characters almost as grim as their remaining heirs. Throw in mysterious black dogs and bulls, a fair amount of inherited insanity, séances, and film crews and you have the perfect environment for trouble. As usual, Jane's youthful enthusiasm leads her into the worst of the fray.

Merrily must cope with healing, spiritism, a terminally determined daughter and her blossoming relationship with Lol. Compelled by her nature she is soon in the thick of things, trying to deal with phenomena that are unresponsive to either intellect or faith. The result is a complex story that is part history, part supernatural, and part psychological thriller. Rickman is one of the few writers who seem to be able to bring the supernatural into a mystery story without destroying the overall effect.

For all the darkness of the themes, The Prayer of the Night Shepherd is much lighter in tone than the past few volumes. Not for lack of horrible events but because Jane's self confidence and Lol's gentle wisdom balance Merrily's introspectiveness perfectly. The inner story that develops around them keeps some of the dark insanity around them at bay. I found myself enjoying the break, as well as all the bits of Sherlockiana and bleak border history. For all that this is volume 7, it stands pretty well on its own. I've managed to read this series completely out of order and don't feel I missed anything but an occasional bit of context.

Phil Rickman is one of my favorite authors. His West Country mysteries, always with a generous sprinkle of English history, Celtic mysticism and superstition, never fail to captivate. Prayer is no exception. The Reverend Merrily Watkins is a winningly human sort of priest, with a neo-pagan daughter and a former rock star boyfriend. Supporting characters are equally well-drawn. While Rickman's plot this time round is quite complex, he moves it along at a fast pace, dropping clues to the reader if the reader's sharp enough to catch them. The surprises don't end till the very last page. If you think evil is an abstract concept, read one of Rickman's books.

Stories of phantom black dogs abound in Britain. Almost every county has its own variant, from the Black Shuck of East Anglia to the Bogey Beast of Yorkshire. In this novel, the ghost hound of Herefordshire on the Welsh border foreshadows a death in the Vaughan family. The family is also cursed with an ancestor named Black Vaughan, who is believed by the author to be the basis for the hellish Hugo of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's "The Hound of the Baskervilles." Did Sir Arthur really take his tale of the phosphorescent Hound from the Welsh Border rather than foggy Dartmoor?

According to an article in the 06/01/04 "Telegraph," Rickman's theory on the origins of 'The Hound' is about to appear in the magazine "Sherlock."

Evidently this author discovered that Herefordshire had a population of medieval Baskervilles, not to mention Mortimers and Stapletons, and many local people still refuse to walk near Black Vaughan's home of Hergest Croft at night for fear of seeing his ghost and that of his hound.

Sherlock Holmes fans might want to read this book just to ferret out Rickman's research on Arthur Conan Doyle and his most famous dog story.

Since "The Prayer of the Night Shepherd" is also a Merrily Watkins procedural, many familiar characters appear from Rickman's previous novels. Merrily, Vicar of Ledwardine and Deliverance Consultant to the Diocese of Hereford reluctantly takes on a new role as a healer of physical ailments. Gomer Parry, the manic digger-for-hire who is one of my favorite Rickman creations, has a minor walk-on. Merrily's daughter Jane is as usual, in the thick of the supernatural goings-on at Stanner Hall. Poor Lol, the musician is still trying to spend quality time with Merrily, but is thwarted by a snowstorm, a couple of attempted murders, an attempted suicide, and a real murder--not to mention a phantom hound.

This book is an unsettling mix of murder mystery, indigestible lumps of Rickman's 'Hound' research, and swirls of supernatural vapor. What really happened to Sir Arthur Conan Doyle when or if he visited Herefordshire? What did Jane really experience in the tower room under the witch's hat at Stanner Hall? What did the medium from the White Company really see?

I was left scratching my head over this latest installment of Merrily Watkins's venture into the dim, dangerous netherworld of Anglican theology.

This book offers a key to opening your mind and heart to the infinite possibilities of who you are and who you can be. It's not about searching for God, it's all about experiencing God. The author artfully designs a five-step treasure map for living, which, if followed, will empower the astute reader to live in true happiness, regardless of the ups and downs of daily life.

Spanning from energy psychology to ultimate mystical insight, this treatise is a scientific exposé of the meaning and purpose of human life on earth. The sub-title, How to Return to the One, will give you some indication of the lofty aspirations of this work, but the author skillfully addresses the huge challenge of such a task, showing the reader how to transcend the illusion of separation and gradually re-integrate with All-That-Is. If these claims sound too amazing, read this book, take up its challenges, listen to your heart and follow the treasure map all the way, if you dare. If you are a serious and joyful seeker of ultimate spiritual freedom and love, this book is for you.

Since I started knowing Psycanics, after a few days I started to know that magic is possible, just like anything else can be possible, and this is a very liberating thought to hold in mind.
I tryed many other things for personal uplifting, with a lot of enthusiasm at the beginning, but with poor or insignificant, or even worst results. Some are The Law of Attraction, Positive Thinking, Toltecs Path, Energetic medicine, all of them have something that is missing. They are telling only one part of the truth...and what about the rest? If something doesn't work, why insisting.
Psycanics W O R K S.
Works like Magic!
Have you ever been in love? What else is important when you are deeply in love? Wouldn't you die for it?
The problem is that love is crazy, it doesn't have any rule! But we are living in a world full of rules...
So Psycanics is here to teach you how to fall in love, with Wisdom!
And most importantly with someone who cannot leave you, and that is yourself?

The concept explained in this book are very simple, and very simply and completely explained, that is an essential basic for a Real World practise, which is really what you want...not just ideas, but provable truth, that you have to prove in your experience, everyday.

I am still learning a lot about it, because it is actually very vast because it can cover and can be applied in many areas. I have known it for nearly 2 years now and it is the first thing I would suggest to someone who needs something. Anyway each soul has to find its own path...
Bye

I have read hundereds of book on spirituality and mysticism but no book gives as good technical details as given in Psycanics for CWG. This book explains construction of mind systematically or sceintifically. This is a marvellous book especialy for scientific minded persons. As the current generation is scientific minded, so this book will help them turn to God by adapting Internal Quest(Internal Quest is explained in the book). In my knowledge, this is the best book on spirituality on earth.

This book is a wonderful, and I might add, necessary complement to the Conversations With God Series by Neale Donald Walsch. While the CWG books describe "What Would Love Do Now", this book will give you the tools that will allow you to do it. The spiritual technology that you will be introduced to here will ensure your 'Return to the ONE'. Anyone who resonates with the CWG books will find that the information in this book will propel their own communion with God and your ability to create a spirit-filled life. A great book to consider with this one is: You Are The Creator of Your Life

This is the only book you will ever need for custom flame jobs. Rod is, and always will be, the best artist to ever layout & paint traditional style flames. His detailed photos and dialog will help even the most talented artist to become even better.

I have known Rod Powell for over 35 years, and he is one of the best custom painters around. Rod is never afraid to try "New Things", which shows in his excellent flame jobs. I was in the custom paint manufacturing business for many years, and would bring samples of New Products to Rods shop. The book shows the proper techniques in laying out the patterns and masking the design. His use of 1/4" masking tape for the design is the best way to go. I was a custom painter/pinstriper since 1955, and Rod's work has always stood out from the others. He worked a lot with Andy Southard jr, another well known pinstriper from the 1950s. I wish I had saved photos of my work as Rod has done, which shows creditability to his work. You can't miss on this book, even if you use spray cans. The technique is the same.

this book has some of the finest examples of car flames published, with most of them is full color.

Excellent book for the beginner or professional custom spray painter. The book is filled with colour photographs of the various flame painting techniques and styles. The book also includes three step by step tutorials, with +/- 20 photos per tutorial on flaming cars and motorcycles. This book is definately good value for money and I'll recommend it any day to any spray painting enthusiast.----- Paint long and prosper.

"Rovering to Success" is the original handbook written by Baden-Powell for Rover Scouts, the most senior section of the Boy Scout Movement. Rovers are Scouts over the age of 18 (in Canada the mandate is age 18-26). This book is NOT intended for children aged 9-12.

Avery Rover Scout over the world must read this book, and find what B.P. wanted to teach us about life...

Rovering to Success is probably not meant for readership in the age group of 9-12 as indicated. It is intended for Young Adults ages 17-25 (though age group for rovering varies with region and countries). It is a fundamental reading for all Rovers and aspirants. Should also consider reading "Scouting for Boys" and "The Man who lived Twice".

Rovering To Success on first glance appears to be an outmoded, elderly text that invites ridicule and giggling at the language used, but if the reader can look past the idioms of the period it was written, and see the fundamental concepts behind what Baden-Powell is saying, then it quickly becomes an excellent guide for young people who want to live a fulfilling and adventurous lifestyle. It also provides an interesting historical reference.