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Spy Survival Handbook
This top-secret spy handbook is packed with all the codes and tools you need to go undercover -- and includes a super decoder keychain!
Think you've got what it takes to be a spy? This book shows you how! Start by learning basic codes from Morse code and Braille to grid and pigpen ciphers. Learn how to dress the part, too, with disguises and undercover surveillance tips. Turn ordinary objects in your house into spy tools-from hidden inks to telescoping mirrors. Act like a special ops agent as you learn how to identify "tails," contact other agents and pass messages. There are even tips on recruiting other spies, starting your own spy club, and playing spy games. Also includes a brief (and real) history of true-life spies.
Think you've got what it takes to be a spy? This book shows you how! Start by learning basic codes from Morse code and Braille to grid and pigpen ciphers. Learn how to dress the part, too, with disguises and undercover surveillance tips. Turn ordinary objects in your house into spy tools-from hidden inks to telescoping mirrors. Act like a special ops agent as you learn how to identify "tails," contact other agents and pass messages. There are even tips on recruiting other spies, starting your own spy club, and playing spy games. Also includes a brief (and real) history of true-life spies.
96 pages, Spiral-bound
First published April 1, 2004
About the author
Laban Carrick Hill
32 books18 followersHill is the author of more than 35 books, including the 2004 National Book Award Finalist Harlem Stomp!: A Cultural History of the Harlem Renaissance, a book he researched for more than a decade. He was drawn to this era because the Harlem Renaissance seemed to embody Ralph Ellison’s sense that America could not be America without African Americans.
Hill has also taught writing at the Solstice MFA in Creative Writing Program at Pine Manor College, Columbia University, Baruch College, St. Michael’s College in Vermont, University of Colombo in Sri Lanka, and the University of Cape Coast in Ghana.
In the fall of 2008, when he was a visiting professor of creative writing at the University of Cape Coast, Cape Coast, Ghana, he co-founder and still co-directs of the Writers Project of Ghana, which was formed to promote literacy and literary culture and to publish literary books in Ghana. The Writers Project of Ghana has been supported by the U. S. State Department.
In 2010, Hill went to the University of Colombo in Sri Lanka to teach writing on a Fulbright Fellowship. As well, the U.S. State Department has brought him to Egypt, the Philippines and Indonesia to lecture on American culture, African American history, hip hop, and writing.
Hill has also taught writing at the Solstice MFA in Creative Writing Program at Pine Manor College, Columbia University, Baruch College, St. Michael’s College in Vermont, University of Colombo in Sri Lanka, and the University of Cape Coast in Ghana.
In the fall of 2008, when he was a visiting professor of creative writing at the University of Cape Coast, Cape Coast, Ghana, he co-founder and still co-directs of the Writers Project of Ghana, which was formed to promote literacy and literary culture and to publish literary books in Ghana. The Writers Project of Ghana has been supported by the U. S. State Department.
In 2010, Hill went to the University of Colombo in Sri Lanka to teach writing on a Fulbright Fellowship. As well, the U.S. State Department has brought him to Egypt, the Philippines and Indonesia to lecture on American culture, African American history, hip hop, and writing.
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January 19, 2013
I have been in possession of this book since I was six and have been in love with it ever since I opened it.
July 27, 2011
I own this book, and it's cute! :) My book didn't come with the cipher wheel.
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