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Record Number: 18402


Reading Experience:

Evidence:

'The voyage took a month.[...] We had collected all the available literature about Nanda Devi, and before long we knew the whole story off by heart. I taught Tilman what little Urdu I knew, and then we spent a weary hour each morning supplementing this from Hugo.'

Century:

1900-1945

Date:

unknown

Country:

voyage from England to India

Time

morning

Place:

other location: on board ship Liverpool to Calcutta

Type of Experience
(Reader):
 

silent aloud unknown
solitary in company unknown
single serial unknown

Type of Experience
(Listener):
 

solitary reactive 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 (born in Ceylon)

Country of Experience:

voyage from England to India

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

Bill Tilman


Additional Comments:

Shipton's companion on the voyage and the very small lightweight expedition was writer/explorer H.W.(Bill) Tilman. They were joined in Calcutta by three Sherpas



Text Being Read:

Author:

Title:

Hugo's Urdu

Genre:

Textbook / self-education

Form of Text:

Print: Book

Publication Details

n/a

Provenance

unknown


Source Information:

Record ID:

18402

Source:

Print

Author:

Eric Shipton

Editor:

n/a

Title:

Upon That Mountain: in The Six Mountain Travel Books

Place of Publication:

London

Date of Publication:

1999 (1943)

Vol:

n/a

Page:

401

Additional Comments:

The source text is Shipton's autobiographical memoir of various climbing and formative experiences. Here the reference is to the preliminaries to the first Nanda Devi Expedition in 1934, an expedition recounted in more detail in 'Nanda Devi' (1936) in the same collection.

Citation:

Eric Shipton, Upon That Mountain: in The Six Mountain Travel Books (London, 1999 (1943)), p. 401, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/RED/record_details.php?id=18402, accessed: 29 March 2024


Additional Comments:

No details available of eition of the Hugo's Urdu course.

   
   
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