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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. Selected as one of the best books of 1989 by the New York Times Book Review and the Washington Post Book ReviewProduct Identifiers
PublisherYale University Press
ISBN-139780300091038
eBay Product ID (ePID)11046554595
Product Key Features
Book TitleBaden-Powell: Founder of the Boy Scouts
AuthorTim Jeal
FormatPaperback
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year2001
TypeTextbook
GenreBiographies & True Stories
Number of Pages688 Pages
Dimensions
Item Height197mm
Item Width127mm
Additional Product Features
Title_AuthorTim Jeal
Topic AreaSocial Organisations
Series TitleYale Nota Bene
Country/Region of ManufactureUnited States