Baden-Powell : Founder of the Boy Scouts / Tim Jeal.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Jeal, Tim, Author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Baden-Powell of Gilwell, Robert Stephenson Smyth Baden-Powell, Baron, 1857-1941.

Baden-Powell of Gilwell, Robert Stephenson Smyth Baden-Powell.

Great Britain. Army--Biography.

Great Britain.

Generals--Great Britain--Biography.

Generals.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (720 p.)

Place of Publication:

New Haven, CT : Yale University Press, [2001]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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

Contents:

Frontmatter

CONTENTS

PREFACE

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

ILLUSTRATIONS

CHAPTER ONE: THAT WONDERFUL WOMAN

CHAPTER TWO: SERVANT OF THE RAJ

CHAPTER THREE : MEN'S MAN

CHAPTER FOUR: IN THE BALANCE

CHAPTER FIVE: THE COMING MAN

CHAPTER SIX: THE HERO

CHAPTER SEVEN: THE GENERAL

CHAPTER EIGHT: HOME COMES THE HERO

CHAPTER NINE: THE BOY MAN TAKES HIS BOW

CHAPTER TEN: SCOUTING FOR BOYS

CHAPTER ELEVEN: AN UNEXPECTED MARRIAGE

CHAPTER TWELVE: 'THE BIGGEST EVENT IN OUR NATIONAL HISTORY'

CHAPTER THIRTEEN: THE FAMILY MAN

CHAPTER FOURTEEN: WHAT TO DO WITH THE GIRLS

CHAPTER FIFTEEN: WIDER STILL AND WIDER

CHAPTER SIXTEEN: THE SPIRIT VERSUS THE FORM

CHAPTER SEVENTEEN: STORMS AND SUNSHINE

CHAPTER EIGHTEEN: UNDER MOUNT KENYA

CHAPTER NINETEEN: EPILOGUE

APPENDIX I

APPENDIX II

APPENDIX III

Manuscript Sources

Published Sources

NOTES

INDEX

Notes:

Includes index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 24. Apr 2020)

ISBN:

1-299-28407-8

0-300-18672-X

OCLC:

842900393