Written while the relief of Mafeking was still news, this popular life sketches Robert Baden-Powell as a boy, a young cavalry officer, a scout and a joker, then follows him on the Ashanti expedition of 1895 and the Matabele campaign of 1896 before telling the story of the 217-day siege. Its imperial attitudes are those of its moment.
A vivid period portrait of the future founder of the Scout movement at the height of his fame. Download the free EPUB.