JECHOUX R. / COLLECTIFLivre Rare Book
More Sketches of Kenya.
1940120211AB1940. 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 hardcover
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