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Record 18397

Reading Experience:

Evidence:
'My early reading had been confined to the work of the pioneers, and in consequence it never occurred to me that big mountains coud be climbed without guides.[...] I had acquired a copy of Abraham's "Swiss Mountain Climbs" which set out in depressing detail the official tariffs of the great peaks, the study of which acted as a constant check on my ambitions.'
Century: 1900-1945
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:Eric Shipton
Age Child (0-17)
Gender Male
Date of Birth 1 Aug 1907
Socio-economic group: Professional / academic / merchant / farmer
Occupation: adolescent
Religion: unknown
Country of origin: English (born in Ceylon)
Country of experience: England
Listeners present if any:
(e.g. family, servants, friends, workmates)
n/a
Additional comments: n/a

 

Text Being Read:

Author: George D. Abraham
Title: Swiss Mountain Climbs
Genre: Geography / Travel, Sport / Leisure
Form of Text: Print: Book
Publication details: 1911 Mills and Boon [sic]
Provenance: owned

 

Source Information:

Record ID: 18397  
Source - Print  
  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: 326
  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. 326, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=18397, accessed: 28 March 2024

Additional comments:

The reference in the reading experience to 'the work of the pioneers' almost certainly implies, among other works, the Edward Whymper's great classic "Scrambles amongst the Alps"(1871). See record 18391

 

 

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