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Record Number: 18321


Reading Experience:

Evidence:

'There was nothing for me to do but lie in my sleeping bag,write up my botanical notes, read and in between whiles eat chocolate.[...] Among the papers I had received by mail were copies of "The Spectator" and "The Times". The news of the day was, as usual, depressing, but I got a certain amount of kick out of the literary reviews, especially as`regards one book which "The Times" praised highly, and "The Spectator" damned to perdition. Such contentiousness seemed to me symbolical of the distant combative world. Another paper, an illustrated weekly, told me in a wealth of detail and many diagrammatic drawings, how to make my house gas-proof, but it said nothing about tents. It all seemed utterly fantastic viewed from the Valley of Flowers.'

Century:

1900-1945

Date:

Between 28 Jun 1937 and 2 Jul 1937

Country:

India

Time

evening

Place:

other location: camp in Bhyundar Valley, Garwhal Himalaya

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:

Frank Smythe

Age:

Adult (18-100+)

Gender:

Male

Date of Birth:

6 Jul 1900

Socio-Economic Group:

Professional / academic / merchant / farmer

Occupation:

mountaineer, writer, photographer

Religion:

unknown

Country of Origin:

England

Country of Experience:

India

Listeners present if any:
e.g family, servants, friends

n/a


Additional Comments:

n/a



Text Being Read:

Author:

Title:

newspapers and weekly magazines

Genre:

Essays / Criticism, Ephemera, Technology

Form of Text:

Print: Newspaper, Serial / periodical

Publication Details

n/a

Provenance

unknown


Source Information:

Record ID:

18321

Source:

Print

Author:

Frank Smythe

Editor:

n/a

Title:

The Valley of Flowers: in The Six Alpine/Himalayan Climbing Books

Place of Publication:

London

Date of Publication:

2000 (1938)

Vol:

n/a

Page:

709

Additional Comments:

n/a

Citation:

Frank Smythe, The Valley of Flowers: in The Six Alpine/Himalayan Climbing Books (London, 2000 (1938)), p. 709, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/RED/record_details.php?id=18321, accessed: 29 March 2024


Additional Comments:

None

   
   
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