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Record 13048

Reading Experience:

Evidence:
'Should you, my dear friend, be desirous of perusing a variety of remedies, equally judicious as well as efficacious with those of Mr Wesley, you will meet with ample satisfaction by turning to "Dom Pernety's Voyage to the Falkland Islands", page 153 to 162 quarto edition.'
Century: 1700-1799
Date: unknown
Country: England
Time: n/a
Place: n/a
   
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:James Lackington
Age Adult (18-100+)
Gender Male
Date of Birth 31 Aug 1746
Socio-economic group: Clerk / tradesman / artisan / smallholder
Bookseller rising socially
Occupation: bookseller
Religion: lapsed Methodist
Country of origin: England
Country of experience: England
Listeners present if any:
(e.g. family, servants, friends, workmates)
n/a
Additional comments: n/a

 

Text Being Read:

Author: Antoine-Joseph Pernety
Title: The History of a Voyage to the Malouine (or Falkland) Islands, made in 1763 and 1764, under the Command of M. de Bouganville in order to form a Settlement there; and of Two Voyages to the Streights of Magellan, with An Account of the Patagonians.
Genre: Geography / Travel
Form of Text: Print: Book
Publication details: 1771. London, Jefferys. translated from French (quarto edition)
Provenance: unknown

 

Source Information:

Record ID: 13048  
Source - Print  
  Author: James Lackington
  Editor: n/a
  Title: Memoirs of the Forty Five First Years of The Life James Lackington
  Place of Publication: London, Temple of the Muses
  Date of Publication: 1794
  Vol: n/a
  Page: 305
  Additional comments: n/a

Citation: James Lackington, Memoirs of the Forty Five First Years of The Life James Lackington (London, Temple of the Muses, 1794), p. 305, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=13048, accessed: 19 April 2024

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