Baden-Powell - Hardcover

Jeal, Tim

 
9780091706708: Baden-Powell

Synopsis

This biography traces the life of Baden-Powell, the victor of Mafeking and founder of the Boy Scouts Movement, and his controversial racial views and private life. It is the culmination of five years research. Tim Jeal is a member of the Writer's Guild and has written "Livingstone".

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Review

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.' --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.' --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.' --Philip Oakes, New Statesman

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Selected as one of the best books of 1989 by the New York Times Book Review and the Washington Post Book Review

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