Amazing Tales For Making Men Out Of Boys Neil Oliver by Neil Oliver 9780061876790, 0061876798 instant download after payment.

There was a time not so very long ago when boys were taught to be men. Efforts were made in those just-forgotten days to ensure that certain skills were learned and that there was a clear understanding of what being a man was all about. It was straightforward, unquestioned and it worked.

Men used to live by the skills of their hands. They made new things and fixed old. They maintained their houses, trucks and snow machines. They knew how to grow food and how to hunt and fish. They dressed like men, talked like men, walked and worked and played like men.

Their jobs had names that are becoming as unfamiliar to us as callused hands and ingrained dirt. They were fitters, turners and carpenters; blacksmiths and wheelwrights; plowmen and woodsmen; masons and glaziers; tailors and cobblers; riveters and welders. They walked the line. Out of the ground beneath their feet they mined coal and copper, tin and lead, gold and silver. They built bridges and railways, ships and trains, and when they ran out of room in their own back yards they shipped out and did it all over again all over the world.

If you learned the lore of manhood and managed to pass your Manliness Finals there were all sorts of manly futures to be looked forward to:

Steam-engine driver

Engineer

Miner

Inventor

Cowboy

Explorer

Sheriff

Astronaut

All of these good, old-fashioned, manly jobs and dozens more besides were there for the taking, provided you’d done your manly homework.