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Baden-Powell
Baden-Powell
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Published:
5 October, 1989
hardback
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5 October, 1989
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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. 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
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| Type | Book |
|---|---|
| ISBN13 | 9780091706708 |
| ISBN10 | 009170670X |
| Number Of Pages | 670 |
| Item Weight | 1277 g |
| Product Dimensions | 164 x 62 x 238 mm |
| Publisher / Reseller | Hutchinson |
| Format | hardback |
| Edition | First Edition |
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