Baden-Powell: Founder of the Boy ScoutsR.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.”—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 “Superb.”—Ian Buruma, New York Review of Books |
Contents
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MENS | 74 |
90 Otmtvwu | 90 |
IN THE BALANCE | 110 |
THE COMING | 159 |
THE GENERAL | 260 |
Constabulary Duty to be Done Sept 1900 to March 1903 | 330 |
HOME COMES THE HERO | 343 |
UNDER MOUNT KENYA | 554 |
EPILOGUE | 567 |
Appendix I | 578 |
Appendix III | 584 |
Published Sources | 591 |
Notes | 597 |
110 | 612 |
THE FAMILY | 636 |
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