Evidence: | 'But instead of learning to sail, I read Edward Whymper's "Travels among the Great Andes of the Equator". The author is better known for his "Scrambles among the Alps", but this came later in my education.[...] I have not read the book again but I still have the most vivid impressions of it: the climbing of Chimborazo [...] the night spent on Cotopaxi [...]' |
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Century: | 1900-1945 | ||||||||||
Date: | unknown | ||||||||||
Country: | England or Ceylon | ||||||||||
Time: | n/a | ||||||||||
Place: | n/a | ||||||||||
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Reader: | Eric Shipton |
Age | Child (0-17) |
Gender | Male |
Date of Birth | 1 Aug 1907 |
Socio-economic group: | Professional / academic / merchant / farmer |
Occupation: | child |
Religion: | unknown |
Country of origin: | English (born in Ceylon) |
Country of experience: | England or Ceylon |
Listeners present if any: (e.g. family, servants,
friends, workmates) |
n/a |
Additional comments: | n/a |
Author: | Edward Whymper |
Title: | Travels among the Great Andes of the Equator |
Genre: | Geography / Travel |
Form of Text: | Print: Book |
Publication details: | 1891-92 |
Provenance: | unknown |
Record ID: | 18391 | |
Source - | ||
Author: | Eric Shipton | |
Editor: | n/a | |
Title: | Upon That Mountain: in The Six Mountain Travel Books | |
Place of Publication: | London | |
Date of Publication: | 1999 (1943) | |
Vol: | n/a | |
Page: | 317 | |
Additional comments: | The source text is Shipton's autobiographical memoir of various climbing and formative experiences. |
Citation: | Eric Shipton, Upon That Mountain: in The Six Mountain Travel Books (London, 1999 (1943)), p. 317, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=18391, accessed: 28 March 2024 |
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