Baden-Powell : Founder of the Boy Scouts Paperback / softback
by Tim Jeal
Paperback / softback
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R.S.S. Baden-Powell, who founded the Boy Scouts movement in 1908, was a British military hero during the Boer War and an author, actor, artist, spy, sportsman, and female impersonator.
In this absorbing and humane account of Baden-Powell’s extraordinary life, Tim Jeal reveals for the first time the complex figure behind the saintly public mask, showing him to be a man of both dazzling talents and crippling secret fears. Reviews of the earlier edition:“Baden-Powell’s life story is as rich and engrossing as any of his memorable campfire yarns . . . a monumental biography.â€â€”Zara Steiner, New York Times Book Review“In an age of good biographies, here is one that deserves to be called great . . . a magnificent book.â€â€”Piers Brendon, Mail on Sunday“Jeal’s Baden-Powell is brave and self-seeking, devious and honorable, a domestic paragon whose repressed homosexuality fired his career, a soldier of genius who ultimately rejected militarism. . . . The story that Tim Jeal has to tell is epic, funny, and touching.â€â€”Philip Oakes, New Statesman“Superb.â€â€”Ian Buruma, New York Review of Books
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Available to Order - This title is available to order, with delivery expected within 2 weeks
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:720 pages, 30 b-w illus.
- Publisher:Yale University Press
- Publication Date:28/02/2007
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- ISBN:9780300125139
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Available to Order - This title is available to order, with delivery expected within 2 weeks
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:720 pages, 30 b-w illus.
- Publisher:Yale University Press
- Publication Date:28/02/2007
- Category:
- ISBN:9780300125139