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Record 12730

Reading Experience:

Evidence:
'Here I have been reading an account of Abyssinia, being a volume of the "Family Library", wherein you travel one stage (or chapter) with Bruce; then half a stage with some Portuguese missionary, and the remainder of it with Salt, or somebody else: you are never sure of your travelling companion.'
Century: 1800-1849
Date: Between 14 Jul 1848 and 2 Sep 1848
Country: Bermuda
Time: n/a
Place: other location: on board "Dromedary Hulk", at Bermuda
   
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:John Mitchel
Age Adult (18-100+)
Gender Male
Date of Birth 3 Nov 1815
Socio-economic group: Professional / academic / merchant / farmer
Occupation: author, Irish Nationalist, under arrest for Treason
Religion: Presbyterian family
Country of origin: Ireland
Country of experience: Bermuda
Listeners present if any:
(e.g. family, servants, friends, workmates)
n/a
Additional comments: n/a

 

Text Being Read:

Author: [unknown]
Title: [Abyssinia]
Genre: Geography / Travel
Form of Text: Print: Book
Publication details: part/ a volume of the "Family Library"
Provenance: borrowed (other)
library on board the hulk

 

Source Information:

Record ID: 12730  
Source - Print  
  Author: John Mitchel
  Editor: n/a
  Title: Jail Journal
  Place of Publication: Dublin
  Date of Publication: 1913
  Vol: n/a
  Page: 61
  Additional comments: n/a

Citation: John Mitchel, Jail Journal (Dublin, 1913), p. 61, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=12730, accessed: 18 April 2024

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