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Record 18436

Reading Experience:

Evidence:
'Our library too was a weighty affair. Shipton had the longest novel that had been published in recent years, Warren a 2,000-page work on physiology.[...] On Good Friday [...] the rest of us lay about, played chess or read the less technical portion of our curiously assorted library. This included "Gone with the Wind" (Shipton) "Seventeenth Century Verse" (Oliver), "Montaigne's Essays" (Warren), "Don Quixote" (self), "Adam Bede" (Lloyd), "Martin Chuzzlewit" (Smythe), "Stones of Venice" (Odell) and a few others. Warren,who rejoined us that day, besides his weighty tome on Physiology -in which there were several funny anecdotes if one took the trouble to look - had with him a yet weightier volume on the singularly inappropriate subject of Tropical Diseases.'
Century: 1900-1945
Date: 15 Apr 1938
Country: Tibet
Time: daytime
Place: other location: slopes of Mount Everest Tibetan approach Camp I
   
Type of Experience (Reader):
silent aloud unknown
solitary in company unknown
single serial unknown
Type of Experience (Listener):
solitary in company unknown
single serial unknown

Reader/Listener/Reading Group:

Reader:Eric Shipton
Age Adult (18-100+)
Gender Male
Date of Birth 1 Aug 1907
Socio-economic group: Professional / academic / merchant / farmer
Occupation: mountaineer and writer
Religion: unknown
Country of origin: English parents, born in Ceylon
Country of experience: Tibet
Listeners present if any:
(e.g. family, servants, friends, workmates)
n/a
Additional comments: Shipton later made a failed summit attempt as did Tilman

 

Text Being Read:

Author: Margaret Mitchell
Title: Gone with the Wind
Genre: Fiction
Form of Text: Print: Book
Publication details: 1936 Macmillan
Provenance: unknown

 

Source Information:

Record ID: 18436  
Source - Print  
  Author: H.W.(Bill) Tilman
  Editor: n/a
  Title: Everest 1938 in: The Seven Mountain-Travel Books
  Place of Publication: London
  Date of Publication: 2003 (1948)
  Vol: n/a
  Page: 464-465
  Additional comments: n/a

Citation: H.W.(Bill) Tilman, Everest 1938 in: The Seven Mountain-Travel Books (London, 2003 (1948)), p. 464-465, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=18436, accessed: 29 March 2024

Additional comments:

Pulitzer Prize 1937.

 

 

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