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Record 18280

Reading Experience:

Evidence:
'Fortunately Peter had lots of reading matter and he loaned me "Doctor Johnson".'
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):
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, workmates)
n/a
Additional comments: n/a

 

Text Being Read:

Author: James Boswell
Title: A Life of Samuel Johnson
Genre: Biography
Form of Text: Print: Book
Publication details: 1791
Provenance: borrowed (other)

 

Source Information:

Record ID: 18280  
Source - Print  
  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: 28 March 2024

Additional comments:

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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