Baden-Powell - Rilegato

Jeal, Tim

Rilegato

ISBN 10: 009170670X ISBN 13: 9780091706708

Casa editrice: Hutchinson, 1989

Riassunto

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"

Su questo libro

Product Description:

Physical description; xxi, 670 p., [28] p. of plates : ill., ports., maps ; 24 cm. Subjects; Baden-Powell of Gilwell, Robert Stephenson Smyth Baden-Powell Baron 1857-1941. Great Britain. Army - Biography. Boy Scouts Association (Great Britain).

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Hutchinson
• Data di pubblicazione: 1989
• ISBN 10: 009170670X
• ISBN 13: 9780091706708
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 670