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Revealing the true Lord Baden-Powell--hero of the Boer War and founder of the Boy Scouts--Jeal chronicles the life of an Edwardian eccentric who walked a tightrope between his macho upbringing and aspirations of eternal boyhood
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The much-anticipated biography of the ambitious and colorful, but insecure and enigmatic founder of the Boy Scouts and also actor, artist, spy, hoaxer, female impersonator, sportsman and regimental commander. Jeal is author of an earlier standard biography of David Livingstone. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.
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