Playing The Game: A Baden-Powell Compendium

Drawing on Baden-Powell's extensive archive, Playing the Game is a rich and evocative selection of his writings, on peace - a major theme throughout his career and the theme of the 2007 centenary celebrations, on his own life, from his wonderfull idiosyncratic anecdotal autobiography and includes a healthy sprinkling of some of BP's more memorable aphorisms, such as 'I don't mind confessing I have a weakness for hippos' and 'the man who holds the average boy's attention for more than seven minutes is a genius', not to mention 'Knowledge without character is mere pie-crust'. Imbued with a strong sense of the splendour and the old-school Empire feel of Baden-Powell's work, Playing the Game offers a dazzling window into a world that's gone, but whose legacy remains alive, not least in the 28 million members of the Scouts Association

• • Author: Robert Baden-Powell
• • Publisher: Macmillan
• • Publication Date: Jan 02, 2014
• • Number of Pages: 458 pages
• • Language: English
• • Binding: Paperback
• • ISBN-10: 1447262158
• • ISBN-13: 9781447262152