Baden-Powell, Lord [Robert] / [Chief Scout].

More Sketches of Kenya.

London, Macmillan and Co. Limited, 1940. 15.5 cm x 20 cm. 151 pages. Hardcover [publisher’s original cream cloth] with lettering and pictorials on spine and front board. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Board corners bumped. Foxing to interior, but otherwise bright and clean. Binding is strong and firm and square.

Includes, for example, the following: A Land for Animal-Lovers / Wolf-Children and a Baboon Boy / Locusts / Buffalo Hunting / Bouncing Birds / White Man’s Magic/ Charged by a Rhino / Elephant Yarns / Making Men in Kenya etc.

Lieutenant General Robert Baden-Powell, 1st Baron Baden-Powell, (1857 – 1941), was a British Army officer, writer, founder and first Chief Scout of the world-wide Boy Scout Movement, and founder, with his sister Agnes, of the world-wide Girl Guide / Girl Scout Movement. Baden-Powell authored the first editions of the seminal work Scouting for Boys, which was an inspiration for the Scout Movement.
Educated at Charterhouse in Surrey, Baden-Powell served in the British Army from 1876 until 1910 in India and Africa. In 1899, during the Second Boer War in South Africa, Baden-Powell successfully defended the town in the Siege of Mafeking. For this he was a national hero. (Wikipedia)

• Keywords: Africa · Africa – Rare · Africa, British East · Africa, British Southern · Africa, Southern · Africana Collection of Rare Books · Animals · Big Game · Birds · British Army · British Author · British Colonial History · British East Africa · British Empire · British Imperial · Kenya · Memoirs · Reminiscences · Settler · Settler life · Wildlife
• Language: English
• Inventory Number: 120211AB

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