About the Author

Elleke Boehmer is the Professor of World Literature in English at the University of Oxford, and Director of the Oxford Life Writing Centre at Wolfson College. A founding figure in the field of colonial and postcolonial literary studies, she is the author, editor, or co-editor of over twenty books, including monographs and novels. Her monographs include Colonial and Postcolonial Literature (1995/2005), Stories of Women (2005), Indian Arrivals (winner ESSE 2015-16 prize), and Postcolonial Poetics (2018). Her novels include The Shouting in the Dark (long-listed Sunday Times prize, 2015), and Screens Again the Sky (short-listed David Higham Prize 1990). Sharmilla and Other Portraits is her 2010 volume of short stories. She is the General Editor of the Oxford Studies in Postcolonial Literatures Series.

Reviews

"very good fun" - Max Hastings, Sunday Telegraph"the value of Elleke Boehmer's well-annotated text of the original edition is to show us the anxieties, contradictions and excitements of the Boy Scout movement at its inception" - Alan Hollinghurst, Guardian"Elleke Boehmer's erudite introduction makes you wish she would get around to writing a full-length biography of the first Chief Scout" - William Cook, New Statesman"this fascinating volume tells us a lot about Baden-Powell, his movement and even to some extent the particular point in time when scouting was born'" - Washington Times"a gripping read" - The Oldie