Record Number: 18321
Reading Experience:
Evidence:
'There was nothing for me to do but lie in my sleeping bag,write up my botanical notes, read and in between whiles eat chocolate.[...] Among the papers I had received by mail were copies of "The Spectator" and "The Times". The news of the day was, as usual, depressing, but I got a certain amount of kick out of the literary reviews, especially as`regards one book which "The Times" praised highly, and "The Spectator" damned to perdition. Such contentiousness seemed to me symbolical of the distant combative world. Another paper, an illustrated weekly, told me in a wealth of detail and many diagrammatic drawings, how to make my house gas-proof, but it said nothing about tents. It all seemed utterly fantastic viewed from the Valley of Flowers.'
Century:1900-1945
Date:Between 28 Jun 1937 and 2 Jul 1937
Country:India
Timeevening
Place:other location: camp in Bhyundar Valley, Garwhal Himalaya
Type of Experience(Reader):
silent aloud unknown
solitary in company unknown
single serial unknown
(Listener):
solitary in company unknown
single serial unknown
Reader / Listener / Reading Group:
Reader: Age:Adult (18-100+)
Gender:Male
Date of Birth:6 Jul 1900
Socio-Economic Group:Professional / academic / merchant / farmer
Occupation:mountaineer, writer, photographer
Religion:unknown
Country of Origin:England
Country of Experience:India
Listeners present if any:e.g family, servants, friends
n/a
Additional Comments:
n/a
Text Being Read:
Author: Title:newspapers and weekly magazines
Genre:Essays / Criticism, Ephemera, Technology
Form of Text:Print: Newspaper, Serial / periodical
Publication Detailsn/a
Provenanceunknown
Source Information:
Record ID:18321
Source:Frank Smythe
Editor:n/a
Title:The Valley of Flowers: in The Six Alpine/Himalayan Climbing Books
Place of Publication:London
Date of Publication:2000 (1938)
Vol:n/a
Page:709
Additional Comments:
n/a
Citation:
Frank Smythe, The Valley of Flowers: in The Six Alpine/Himalayan Climbing Books, (London, 2000 (1938)), p. 709, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=18321, accessed: 28 September 2024
Additional Comments:
None