2001, ISBN: 9780300186727

Founder of the Boy Scouts, eBooks, eBook Download (EPUB), Auflage, R.S.S. Baden-Powell, who founded the Boy Scouts movement in 1908, was a British military hero during the Boer War and an… Mehr…

Founder of the Boy Scouts, eBooks, eBook Download (EPUB), Auflage, 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&#8217;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:&#147;Baden-Powell&#8217;s life story is as rich and engrossing as any of his memorable campfire yarns . . . a monumental biography.&#8221;&#151;Zara Steiner, New York Times Book Review&#147;In an age of good biographies, here is one that deserves to be called great . . . a magnificent book.&#8221;&#151;Piers Brendon, Mail on Sunday&#147;Jeal&#8217;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.&#8221;&#151;Philip Oakes, New Statesman&#147;Superb.&#8221;&#151;Ian Buruma, New York Review of Books, [PU: Yale University Press], Seiten: 720, Yale University Press, 2001<

ISBN: 9780300186727

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… Mehr…

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; EPUB; Biography > Biography: general > Biography: historical, political & military, Zondervan<

ISBN: 9780300186727

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… Mehr…

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 extraordin 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 extraordin, Yale University Press<

2001, ISBN: 9780300186727

Founder of the Boy Scouts, eBooks, eBook Download (EPUB), Auflage, [PU: Yale University Press], [ED: 1], Yale University Press, 2001

2001, ISBN: 9780300186727

Founder of the Boy Scouts, [ED: 1], Auflage, eBook Download (EPUB), eBooks, [PU: Yale University Press]