Baden-Powell: Founder of the Boy Scouts
By Tim Jeal.
Description
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.”Za...
ISBN(s)
0300125135, 9780300125139
