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The Story of Baden-Powell

by Harold Begbie

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Written for schoolboys in 1900, when the defender of Mafeking was a national hero, this life of Robert Baden-Powell covers his family and holidays, his schooldays at Charterhouse, his career as a dashing hussar in India and Africa, his scouting adventures and the siege that made him famous.

A boyish hero’s biography of the future founder of the Scout movement, imperial in outlook. Download the free EPUB.

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