Adventures and Accidents

by Robert Baden-Powell

10 Illustrations by the Author. Partial A Yachting Adventure and its Lesson; Jokilobovu; A Story of the Matabele Rising; The Sport of Rajahs; A Lion Hunt; Bluffing in Mafeking; Bush Strategy; Hadj Ano; An Ambuscade; An Elephant Hunt; The Value of Skirt-Dancing; When I was a Spy; The Bravest Man I Ever Saw; The Cannibal of the Sea; Canoe Traveling in Canada; A Scouting Thrill; Gooming; Alone in the Andies.

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First published December 1, 1994

About the author

Robert Stephenson Smyth Baden-Powell , British general and first baron Baden-Powell, founded the Boy Scouts in 1908 and with his sister Agnes Baden-Powell founded the Girl Guides in 1910.

This also known lord and lieutenant in the Army wrote of the movement.

Charterhouse school educated Baden-Powell, who afterward from 1876 served in the Army in India and Africa until 1910. In 1899 during the second Boer War in South Africa, Baden-Powell successfully defended the besieged city of Mafeking. He wrote several also read military books for reconnaissance and training in his African years. Based on those earlier books, he wrote Scouting for Boys , which Pearson published in 1908 for youth readership. During writing, he tested his ideas on Brownsea island through a camping trip that began on 1 August 1907, now seen as the beginning.

Baden-Powell and notably Olave Saint Clair Soames, his wife, after their marriage actively gave the movement. Baden-Powell lived his last years in Nyeri, Kenya, where he died.