Author: TIM JEAL
Title: Baden-Powell
Description: Century Hutchinson Limited, 1989. Linnen band met stofomslag. Pp: 670. 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". ISBN: 9780091706708. Cond./Kwaliteit: Goed.
Keywords: 9780091706708
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Title: Baden-Powell
Description: Century Hutchinson Limited, 1989. Linnen band met stofomslag. Pp: 670. 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". ISBN: 9780091706708. Cond./Kwaliteit: Goed.
Keywords: 9780091706708
Price: EUR 15.00 = appr. US$ 16.30 Seller: De Slegte
- Book number: 2470349
- Book number: 2470349
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