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Inspired soldier, actor, artist, hoaxer, spy, sportsman and female impersonator, Baden-Powell also invented the Boy Scouts. With access to a range of previously undiscovered private papers, the author strips away the public mask, revealing a man whose talents co-existed with crippling secret fears.
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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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'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
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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- PublisherPimlico
- Publication date1991
- ISBN 10 0712650261
- ISBN 13 9780712650267
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages670
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