| Evidence: | 'The voyage took a month.[...] We had collected all the available literature about Nanda Devi, and before long we knew the whole story off by heart. I taught Tilman what little Urdu I knew, and then we spent a weary hour each morning supplementing this from Hugo.' |
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| Century: | 1900-1945 | ||||||||||
| Date: | unknown | ||||||||||
| Country: | voyage from England to India | ||||||||||
| Time: | morning | ||||||||||
| Place: | other location: on board ship Liverpool to Calcutta | ||||||||||
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| Reader: | Eric Shipton |
| Age | Adult (18-100+) |
| Gender | Male |
| Date of Birth | 1 Aug 1907 |
| Socio-economic group: | Professional / academic / merchant / farmer |
| Occupation: | mountaineer and writer |
| Religion: | unknown |
| Country of origin: | English (born in Ceylon) |
| Country of experience: | voyage from England to India |
| Listeners present if any: (e.g. family, servants,
friends, workmates) |
Bill Tilman |
| Additional comments: | Shipton's companion on the voyage and the very small lightweight expedition was writer/explorer H.W.(Bill) Tilman. They were joined in Calcutta by three Sherpas |
| Author: | |
| Title: | Hugo's Urdu |
| Genre: | Textbook / self-education |
| Form of Text: | Print: Book |
| Publication details: | n/a |
| Provenance: | unknown |
| Record ID: | 18402 | |
| 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: | 401 | |
| Additional comments: | The source text is Shipton's autobiographical memoir of various climbing and formative experiences. Here the reference is to the preliminaries to the first Nanda Devi Expedition in 1934, an expedition recounted in more detail in 'Nanda Devi' (1936) in the same collection. |
| Citation: | Eric Shipton, Upon That Mountain: in The Six Mountain Travel Books (London, 1999 (1943)), p. 401, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=18402, accessed: 02 May 2024 | |
| No details available of eition of the Hugo's Urdu course. |
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