Baden–Powell – Founder of the Boy Scouts (Yale Nota Bene) - Softcover

Jeal, Tim

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0300091036 ISBN 13: 9780300091038

Publisher: Yale University Press, 2001

Synopsis

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. 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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Review:

"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... -- Philip Oakes, New Statesman

"Superb." -- Ian Buruma, New York Review of Books

From the Publisher:

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

About this edition

• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Publication date: 2001
• ISBN 10: 0300091036
• ISBN 13: 9780300091038
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 676