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: | Peter R. Oliver |
Age | Adult (18-100+) |
Gender | Male |
Date of Birth | 1906 |
Socio-economic group: | Professional / academic / merchant / farmer |
Occupation: | soldier |
Religion: | unknown |
Country of origin: | Unknown |
Country of experience: | Tibet |
Listeners present if any: (e.g. family, servants,
friends, workmates) |
n/a |
Additional comments: | Captain , Coke's Rifles and member of several Himalayan expeditions, killed in action 1945 in Burma commanding 13th Frontier Force Rifles |
Author: | unknown |
Title: | Seventeenth Century Verse |
Genre: | Poetry |
Form of Text: | Print: Book |
Publication details: | |
Provenance: | unknown |
Record ID: | 18437 | |
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=18437, accessed: 25 April 2024 |
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