Evidence: | 'There was nothing for me to do but lie in my sleeping bag,write up my botanical notes, read and in between whiles eat chocolate.[...] Among the papers I had received by mail were copies of "The Spectator" and "The Times". The news of the day was, as usual, depressing, but I got a certain amount of kick out of the literary reviews, especially as`regards one book which "The Times" praised highly, and "The Spectator" damned to perdition. Such contentiousness seemed to me symbolical of the distant combative world. Another paper, an illustrated weekly, told me in a wealth of detail and many diagrammatic drawings, how to make my house gas-proof, but it said nothing about tents. It all seemed utterly fantastic viewed from the Valley of Flowers.' |
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Century: | 1900-1945 | ||||||||||
Date: | Between 28 Jun 1937 and 2 Jul 1937 | ||||||||||
Country: | India | ||||||||||
Time: | evening | ||||||||||
Place: | other location: camp in Bhyundar Valley, Garwhal Himalaya | ||||||||||
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Type of Experience (Listener): |
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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: | |
Title: | newspapers and weekly magazines |
Genre: | Essays / Criticism, Ephemera, Technology |
Form of Text: | Print: Newspaper, Serial / periodical |
Publication details: | n/a |
Provenance: | unknown |
Record ID: | 18321 | |
Source - | ||
Author: | Frank Smythe | |
Editor: | n/a | |
Title: | The Valley of Flowers: in The Six Alpine/Himalayan Climbing Books | |
Place of Publication: | London | |
Date of Publication: | 2000 (1938) | |
Vol: | n/a | |
Page: | 709 | |
Additional comments: | n/a |
Citation: | Frank Smythe, The Valley of Flowers: in The Six Alpine/Himalayan Climbing Books (London, 2000 (1938)), p. 709, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=18321, accessed: 23 April 2024 |
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