| Evidence: | 'Fortunately Peter had lots of reading matter and he loaned me "Doctor Johnson".' |
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| Century: | 1900-1945 | ||||||||||
| Date: | 21 Aug 1937 | ||||||||||
| Country: | India | ||||||||||
| Time: | daytime | ||||||||||
| Place: | other location: tent in camp near Nilkanta, Garwhal Himalaya | ||||||||||
| Type of Experience (Reader): |
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| 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, workmates) |
n/a |
| Additional comments: | n/a |
| Author: | James Boswell |
| Title: | A Life of Samuel Johnson |
| Genre: | Biography |
| Form of Text: | Print: Book |
| Publication details: | 1791 |
| Provenance: | borrowed (other) |
| Record ID: | 18280 | |
| Source - | ||
| Author: | Frank Smythe | |
| Editor: | n/a | |
| Title: | The Valley of the Flowers : in The Six Alpine/Himalayan Climbing Books | |
| Place of Publication: | London | |
| Date of Publication: | 2000 (1938) | |
| Vol: | n/a | |
| Page: | 782 | |
| Additional comments: | n/a |
| Citation: | Frank Smythe, The Valley of the Flowers : in The Six Alpine/Himalayan Climbing Books (London, 2000 (1938)), p. 782, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=18280, accessed: 09 December 2023 | |
| The reference is presumed to be to Boswell's Life of Samuel Johnson, from a subsequent comment by the reader in the text |
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