Baden Powell Maj (16 results)

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Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 11pp extract, salvaged from a damaged copy of the ANNUAL REPORT OF THE BOARD OF REGENTS OF THE SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION, FOR THE YEAR ENDING JUNE 30, 1902. VG. In plastic report covers. The article mentions that the Wright brothers `have made a very considerable advance since last year, and now glide at angles of 6 to 7 (degrees), sustaining 125 to 160 pounds per net horsepower.' Just a year later, the brothers would make history.…

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Condition: New. 2016 N&M Press reprint (original pub 1898). SB. 198 pp. + illustrationsPublished Price £11.50 First published by Methuen in 1896, The Downfall of Prempeh: A Diary of Life with the Native Levy in Ashanti, 1895-96 is Robert Baden-Powell's first-hand account of the British expedition into the Ashanti kingdom of West Africa. Written while he was still a serving Army officer, years before achieving international fame as the founder of the Scout movement, it provides a vivid contemporary record of campaigning in the difficult terrain of the Gold Coast.Baden-Powell served with the expedition commanded by Sir Francis Scott and was responsible for raising, organising and commanding locally recruited levies. Presented in the form of a campaign diary, his narrative records the practical realities of the advance towards Kumasi: recruiting and training troops, scouting, reconnaissance, road-building, clearing bush, organising transport and conducting marches through dense tropical country.Although the expedition encountered little organised military resistance, campaigning conditions presented formidable challenges. Disease and sickness took a severe toll, demonstrating how climate, terrain, communications and logistics could prove as dangerous as enemy action in nineteenth-century colonial warfare.The advance culminated in the occupation of Kumasi and the removal of King Prempeh from power. Baden-Powell records these events from the perspective of a British officer directly involved in the expedition, while also commenting upon local customs, personalities and the political circumstances surrounding British intervention.As such, the book must also be read as a product of its period, reflecting contemporary British imperial attitudes towards Ashanti society and colonial expansion. This perspective itself gives the work considerable historical value.Part military memoir, part campaign diary and part record of colonial soldiering, The Downfall of Prempeh is an important primary source for students of the Ashanti campaigns, Victorian imperial warfare and Baden-Powell's early military career.The book is well illustrated, and includes B-P's own highly competent sketches. Book.…

Condition: New. Matabele Campaign 1896: Being a Narrative of the Campaign in Suppressing the Native Rising in Matabeleland and Mashonaland (Paperback or Softback).

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Paperback. Condition: Brand New. 520 pages. 7.95x5.00x1.42 inches. In Stock.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. First Edition. 448 pages (complete). A benign copy. Half leather. The boards are worn, scuffed, marked all about from handling and shelving and storage. The spine has wear and is a little cracked. The boards and spine are yet sound and sure. Within, there is evidence of age and avid use throughout. Whilst there are flecks, flurries of foxing, some user wear, the contents are mild-mannered. They are assured, comfortable, genial, tranquil, certain, generous in spirit, clean and clear, more than competent. Please note that due to the weight of the book, should the book need be posted to the outside of South Africa, extra postal charges may be required. fk. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.…

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. First Edition. 447 pages (complete). A comprehensively owned copy. Half-leather. Gilt borders. The leathered corners and spine are much worn, cracked. The blue boards have storage, shelving and handling marks and wear all about. They are passive, benign. The boards are steady and sound. Marbled end papers. The contents have evidence of avid, repeated use throughout. There are handling, shelving marks. There is some handling wear. However, the pages are calm, in general pleasingly clean and clear, assured, confident, companionable, competent. Please note that due to the weight of the book, should the book need be posted to the outside of South Africa, extra postal charges may be required. fk. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.…

Softcovers. Condition: Very Good. Revised and enlarged Edition. 1906. Revised and enlarged edition. xii, 178pp., a folding diagram showing patrolling formations for reconnoitring at the end of the book and a list of other publications on the endpapers. In 1899, while serving in the 2nd Boer War, Robert Baden-Powell penned his sixth military book, Aids To Scouting. It was a non-typical training manual with personal stories and even games. Its goal was to encourage the development of light reconnaissance scouting skills within the British Army. The book was well received by various armies of its time, including the French Army. The work was also taken up by teachers and youth groups to help organize outdoor activities and sport, and Baden-Powell eventually embraced the idea of adapting his work into a new youth-oriented book, Scouting for Boys (1908). The book is bound in the original cloth over card covers with black titling on the spine and front cover. The book is in very good condition with shelf wear and light soiling to the covers and fading to the spine and top 1/2" of the rear cover. The contents are secure and clean with fading around the edges of the endpapers and some creasing on the fore edge of the front free endpaper. There is a little foxing on the half-title page and a small stamp from Leckie Graham & Co., Glasgow, on the bottom of the title-page. …

Methuen's Sixpenny Library. Illustrated throughout. 8vo. Publisher's decorated wrappers, worn with closed tear. 114pp. London, Methuen & Co..