| Evidence: | 'Any one can imagine the fearful monotony of those long dreary marches seated on the back of a slow and silently moving camel. While it was light I would read and even write; but soon the sun would set before us, the stars would appear one by one, and through the long dark hours we would go silently on [...].' |
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| Century: | 1850-1899 | ||||||||||
| Date: | Between 8 May 1887 and 13 May 1887 | ||||||||||
| Country: | China/Mongolia | ||||||||||
| Time: | evening daytime: until sunset |
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| Place: | other location: crossing the Gobi Desert on back of camel | ||||||||||
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| Reader: | Francis Younghusband |
| Age | Adult (18-100+) |
| Gender | Male |
| Date of Birth | 31 May 1863 |
| Socio-economic group: | Professional / academic / merchant / farmer |
| Occupation: | soldier and explorer |
| Religion: | Evangelical Christian at the time later promoted his own brand of spirituality |
| Country of origin: | India, English parents |
| Country of experience: | China/Mongolia |
| Listeners present if any: (e.g. family, servants,
friends, workmates) |
n/a |
| Additional comments: | n/a |
| Author: | unknown |
| Title: | unknown |
| Genre: | Unknown, see additional comments |
| Form of Text: | Print: Unknown |
| Publication details: | n/a |
| Provenance: | unknown |
| Record ID: | 18518 | |
| Source - | ||
| Author: | Francis E. Younghusband | |
| Editor: | n/a | |
| Title: | The Heart of a Continent: A Narrative of Travels in Manchuria, across the Gobi Desert, through the Pamirs and Chitrai, 1884-1894 | |
| Place of Publication: | London | |
| Date of Publication: | 1897 | |
| Vol: | n/a | |
| Page: | 86 | |
| Additional comments: | n/a |
| Citation: | Francis E. Younghusband, The Heart of a Continent: A Narrative of Travels in Manchuria, across the Gobi Desert, through the Pamirs and Chitrai, 1884-1894 (London, 1897), p. 86, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=18518, accessed: 20 April 2024 | |
| reading material unspecified but Younghusband's biographer indicates that he took a hymn book inscribed by his sister (French, 2004, p.38). This part of the source text makes frequent references to the travel writings of Nikolai Prjevalsky [sic] or Przewalski (1839-1888) the Russian geographer, explorer and naturalist who first crossed the Gobi Desert in the 1870s publishing accounts of his crossings in works in 1875 and 1879. It is possible that Younghusband had one of these texts with him. |
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