It also gave rise to imitators around the world.
It spawned a movement complete with uniform, code and motto “Be Prepared” deriving from the author’s initials. The following year he wrote Scouting for Boys, said to be the fourth bestselling book of the 20th century after the Bible, the Qur’an and Mao’s Little Red Book. In 1907 Robert Baden-Powell, a British military veteran, set up an experimental camp for 20 boys on Brownsea Island in Poole harbour, Dorset. The film tells how, after more than 82,000 men stepped forward, the BSA filed for bankruptcy, leading to the biggest sexual abuse settlement in history.
Humphrey’s is among the stories told in Leave No Trace, a documentary that investigates the century-long cover-up of sexual abuse in the Boy Scouts of America (BSA).