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.' |
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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): |
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Type of Experience (Listener): |
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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 |
Author: | Margaret Mitchell |
Title: | Gone with the Wind |
Genre: | Fiction |
Form of Text: | Print: Book |
Publication details: | 1936 Macmillan |
Provenance: | unknown |
Record ID: | 18436 | |
Source - | ||
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 |
Pulitzer Prize 1937. |
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