Evidence: | 'Then came those old-fashioned books of natural history that dealt courageously with The Universe, illustrating it with quaint engravings of strange rock formations in the Hartz Mountains, the Mammoth caves in Kentucky, the Aurora Borealis, and the eruption of Mount Etna; always with little men armed with long staves, looking as though they themselves were responsible for the phenomena. But none of these were part of the school curricula.' |
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Century: | 1900-1945 | ||||||||||
Date: | Between 1 Jan 1914 and 31 Dec 1919 | ||||||||||
Country: | England or Ceylon | ||||||||||
Time: | n/a | ||||||||||
Place: | n/a | ||||||||||
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Type of Experience (Listener): |
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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: | text read during prep school years, date range an estimate. |
Author: | unknown |
Title: | [books of natural history] |
Genre: | Children's Lit, Geography / Travel, Natural history |
Form of Text: | Print: Book |
Publication details: | n/a |
Provenance: | unknown |
Record ID: | 18486 | |
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: | 316 | |
Additional comments: | n/a |
Citation: | Eric Shipton, Upon That Mountain: in The Six Mountain Travel Books (London, 1999 (1943)), p. 316, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=18486, accessed: 25 April 2024 |
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