Evidence: | 'Our library too was a weighty affair. Shipton had the longest novel that had been published in recent years, Warren a 2,000-page work on physiology.[...] On Good Friday [...] the rest of us lay about, played chess or read the less technical portion of our curiously assorted library. This included "Gone with the Wind" (Shipton) "Seventeenth Century Verse" (Oliver), "Montaigne's Essays" (Warren), "Don Quixote" (self), "Adam Bede" (Lloyd), "Martin Chuzzlewit" (Smythe), "Stones of Venice" (Odell) and a few others. Warren, who rejoined us that day, besides his weighty tome on Physiology -in which there were several funny anecdotes if one took the trouble to look - had with him a yet weightier volume on the singularly inappropriate subject of Tropical Diseases. ' |
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Century: | 1900-1945 | ||||||||||
Date: | 15 Apr 1938 | ||||||||||
Country: | Tibet | ||||||||||
Time: | daytime | ||||||||||
Place: | other location: camp I on slopes of Mount Everest (Tibet approach) | ||||||||||
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Reader: | Peter Lloyd |
Age | Adult (18-100+) |
Gender | Male |
Date of Birth | 26 Jun 1907 |
Socio-economic group: | Professional / academic / merchant / farmer |
Occupation: | Engineer ?chemical |
Religion: | unknown |
Country of origin: | England |
Country of experience: | Tibet |
Listeners present if any: (e.g. family, servants,
friends, workmates) |
n/a |
Additional comments: | experienced alpine climber, took part in successful Anglo-American Nanda Devi Expedition (1936). An engineering graduate from Cambridge. Worked as an engineer though Tilman calls him a 'chemist' (source text p.439) . Died in Australia 2003. |
Author: | George Eliot |
Title: | Adam Bede |
Genre: | Fiction |
Form of Text: | Print: Book |
Publication details: | Blackwood 1859 |
Provenance: | unknown |
Record ID: | 18441 | |
Source - | ||
Author: | H.W.(Bill) Tilman | |
Editor: | n/a | |
Title: | Everest 1938 in: The Seven Mountain-Travel Books | |
Place of Publication: | London | |
Date of Publication: | 2003 (1948) | |
Vol: | n/a | |
Page: | 464-465 | |
Additional comments: | n/a |
Citation: | H.W.(Bill) Tilman, Everest 1938 in: The Seven Mountain-Travel Books (London, 2003 (1948)), p. 464-465, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=18441, accessed: 19 April 2024 |
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