Baden-Powell

Baden-Powell

Baden-Powell is a 1989 biography of Robert Baden-Powell by Tim Jeal. Tim Jeal's work, researched over five years, was first published by Hutchinson in the UK and Yale University Press . It was reviewed by the New York Times. As James Casada writes in his review for Library Journal, it is "a balanced, definitive assessment which so far transcends previous treatments as to make them almost meaningless." Particular attention in reviews has been given to Jeal's analysis of whether Baden-Powell was a suppressed homosexual. Nelson Block states ""While the professional history community generally...
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Author:Tim Jeal
Genre:Non-fiction, Biography, Autobiography
Year published:1989
Number of editions:4

Author of Baden-Powell

Tim Jeal
Tim Jeal
Age:67
Education:Westminster School, Christ Church, Oxford

Tim Jeal is a British novelist, and biographer of notable Victorians. His publications include biographies of Livingstone , Baden-Powell , and Stanley . In 2004 his memoir Swimming with my Father was acclaimed and was shortlisted for the J.R. Ackerley Prize for Autobiography. Jeal was formally...
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Additional works by Tim Jeal
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Stanley: The Impossible Life of Africa's Greatest Explorer Biography
Deep Water
Livingstone
Swimming with My Father: A Memoir Memoir
The missionary's wife
marriage of convenience
The Boy-Man
For love or money
Until the colours fade
Carnforth's creation
Cushing's crusade
For God and glory
Somewhere beyond reproach
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Non-fiction
Non-fiction

Non-fiction is the form of any narrative, account, or other communicative work whose assertions and descriptions are understood to be factual. This...
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Biography
Biography

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Autobiography
Autobiography

"If you like autobiographies, as I do, then you will be pleased to know that this one actually is an auto-biography. It has been written entirely by...
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    The book "Baden-Powell" is of which literary genre?
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    The written work is classified as- Non-fiction.
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    "Baden-Powell" contains subject matter categorized: Biography and Great Britain
  • Q:
    What year was the title "Baden-Powell" first released to the public?
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    The work was first printed in 1989.
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    How long is the book "Baden-Powell"?
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    The book contains 670 pages.

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