Baden-Powell: Founder of the Boy Scouts - Softcover

Jeal, Tim

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0300125135 ISBN 13: 9780300125139

Publisher: Yale University Press, 2007

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.

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

About this title

From the Publisher:

Selected as a Notable Book of the Year by the New York Times Book Review and the Washington Post Book World

About the Author:

Tim Jeal is also the biographer of Henry Morton Stanley (National Book Critics' Circle Award in Biography and Sunday Times Biography of the Year 2007), and Robert Baden-Powell, which (like Livingstone) was chosen as a Notable Book of the Year by the New York Times and the Washington Post. In 2011 his Explorers of the Nile was a New York Times Editor's Choice and a BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week.

About this edition

• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Publication date: 2007
• ISBN 10: 0300125135
• ISBN 13: 9780300125139
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 720