Originally Posted by tjm10025

burner:

I have a couple of his early books at home. One of them, I think, is "The Downfall of Prempeh."

It's an account of the Ashanti campaign of 1895, and IIRC, it's in that book that he expresses his developing thoughts about what a "boy scout" organization might look like, and why he thought it would be useful to society.

I'll look through it tonight and report back.


Thanks, would be interested in looking at some of them. I was never a scout but I read his life story on Wikipedia after reading your post, sounds like a very interesting guy.