Record Number: 18384
Reading Experience:
Evidence:
'I slept most of the morning, and in the afternoon I lay in the sun and read copies of the Calcutta "Statesman " four months old, that Auden had brought for wrapping up geological specimens. I derived as much enjoyment from them as if they had been that morning's issue.'
Century:1900-1945
Date:4 Aug 1937
Country:border zone of Pre-Partition India (now Pakistan) and China
Timeafternoon
Place:other location: Camp on glacier system of northern Karakoram Himalaya alt.appox 18,000ft
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:1 Aug 1907
Socio-Economic Group:Professional / academic / merchant / farmer
Occupation:mountaineer/explorer and writer
Religion:unknown
Country of Origin:English (born in Ceylon)
Country of Experience:border zone of Pre-Partition India (now Pakistan) and China
Listeners present if any:e.g family, servants, friends
n/a
Additional Comments:
n/a
Text Being Read:
Author: Title:Calcutta Statesman
Genre:Ephemera
Form of Text:Print: Newspaper
Publication DetailsApril-May 1937
Provenanceunknown
Source Information:
Record ID:18384
Source:Eric Shipton
Editor:n/a
Title:Blank on the Map: in The Six Mountain Travel Books
Place of Publication:London
Date of Publication:1999 (1938)
Vol:n/a
Page:253
Additional Comments:
This source text narrates an historic surveying and mapping expedition to the remote northern summits of the Karakoram Himalayas.
Citation:
Eric Shipton, Blank on the Map: in The Six Mountain Travel Books, (London, 1999 (1938)), p. 253, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=18384, accessed: 28 September 2024
Additional Comments:
The small team of four Europeans included, as well as Eric Shipton, the equally well known explorer and writer Bill Tilman, the surveyor Michael Spender (brother of Stephen Spender) and the geologist John Auden (brother of W. H. Auden).