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Maybe you arent eager to learn how to skin a rabbit. Possibly you alreadyknow how to use Morse code. Or, perhaps you arent a boy. Still, chances are TheDangerous Book for Boys has information that will interest you——even if the titleputs you off. The how-to guide has easy-to-follow instructions about more than 75topics, including how to build a tree fort1, skip a stone or create fireproof cloth.Already a best seller in Britain, The Dangerous Book recently won a top Britishbook prize. It hits stores in the United States this week.
Brothers Conn and Hal Iggulden aimed to write the book that they wanted toread when they were boys. "We had some old books in the house with titles likeChemical Amusements and Experiments," says big brother Conn. "I rememberendlessly looking through these books, generally to find things that I could makeexplode or set on fire." Dont get the wrong idea from the title, though. As wildas it gets, The Dangerous Book doesnt deliver tips about how to do anything trulyrisky or unsafe.