| Evidence: | 'Spender cut his tobacco allowance down to one pipeful a day in order to take with him Tolstoy's "War and Peace" and Forster's "A Passage to India". These were a great boon to us in our few bouts of bad weather,though Tilman and I felt ourselves morally obliged to pay with tobacco for the luxury of reading.' |
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| Century: | 1900-1945 | ||||||||||
| Date: | 25 May 1937 | ||||||||||
| Country: | Pre-Partition India (now Pakistan) and China | ||||||||||
| Time: | daytime: probably daytime during bad weather | ||||||||||
| Place: | other location: various locations in the Karakoram Himalaya | ||||||||||
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| Reading Group: | Members of Shaksgam Expedition |
| Age | Adult (18-100+) |
| Gender | Male |
| Date of Birth | n/a |
| Socio-economic group: | Professional / academic / merchant / farmer |
| Occupation: | mountaineer and writer (Shipton and Tilman); surveyor (Spender) |
| Religion: | unknown |
| Country of origin: | English (all ) |
| Country of experience: | Pre-Partition India (now Pakistan) and China |
| Listeners present if any: (e.g. family, servants,
friends, workmates) |
n/a |
| Additional comments: | The small team of four Europeans included, as well as Eric Shipton, the equally well known explorer and writer Bill Tilman, the surveyor Michael Spender (brother of Stephen Spender) and the geologist John Auden (brother of W.H.Auden). |
| Author: | E.M. Forster |
| Title: | A Passage to India |
| Genre: | Fiction |
| Form of Text: | Print: Book |
| Publication details: | 1924 |
| Provenance: | n/a |
| Record ID: | 18379 | |
| Source - | ||
| Author: | Eric Shipton | |
| Editor: | n/a | |
| Title: | Blank on the Map: in The Six Mountain Travel Books | |
| Place of Publication: | London | |
| Date of Publication: | 1999 (1938) | |
| Vol: | n/a | |
| Page: | 193 | |
| Additional comments: | n/a |
| Citation: | Eric Shipton, Blank on the Map: in The Six Mountain Travel Books (London, 1999 (1938)), p. 193, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=18379, accessed: 25 April 2024 | |
| Details of ages of the three documented readers in the 'reading group' have not been entered here though they are available as cross reference to other records where members are cited individually as readers. Their professions are entered together in one field and their socio economic groups were the same.`The team also had available Tolstoy's "War and Peace". |
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