Record Number: 18402
Reading Experience:
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.'
Century:1900-1945
Date:Between 6 Apr 1934 and 6 May 1934
Country:voyage from England to India
Timemorning
Place:other location: on board SS Mahsud from Liverpool to Calcutta
Type of Experience(Reader):
silent aloud unknown
solitary in company unknown
single serial unknown
(Listener):
solitary reactive 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 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
Bill Tilman
Additional Comments:
n/a
Text Being Read:
Author: Title:Hugo's Urdu
Genre:Textbook / self-education
Form of Text:Print: Book
Publication Detailsn/a
Provenanceowned
Source Information:
Record ID:18402
Source: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://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=18402, accessed: 28 September 2024
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. No details are available of the edition of the Hugo's Urdu course.