Record Number: 31179

---

Reading Experience:

Evidence:

'"Been across before?" I asked him, condescendingly.
"Once or twice," he answered with a grin. "Have you?"
"A few times," I admitted largely; and I proceeded to entertain him with an account of various remarkable journeys I had made across the Irish Sea, the descriptive matter of these accounts being looted from Lever and other sources. When he apparently swallowed it all with nothing more than a faint grin, I grew more adventurous. I recounted a voyage I had made down the Portuguese coast (Peter Simple) and the Mediterranean (Midshipman Easy) ... I filled in the background of my Australian adventures with local colour from Robbery Under Arms and penetrated Darkest Africa with Stanley.'

Century:

1900-1945

Date:

Until: Aug 1914

Country:

England

Time

n/a

Place:

n/a

Type of Experience
(Reader):
 

silent aloud unknown
solitary in company unknown
single serial unknown

Type of Experience
(Listener):
 

solitary in company unknown
single serial unknown

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Reader / Listener / Reading Group:

Reader:

Desmond Malone

Age:

Child (0-17)

Gender:

Male

Date of Birth:

1898

Socio-Economic Group:

Clerk / tradesman / artisan / smallholder

Occupation:

Child

Religion:

Roman Catholic

Country of Origin:

England

Country of Experience:

England

Listeners present if any:
e.g family, servants, friends

n/a

Additional Comments:

n/a

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Text Being Read:

Author:

Frederick Marryat

Title:

Midshipman Easy

Genre:

Fiction

Form of Text:

Print: Book

Publication Details

n/a

Provenance

unknown

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Source Information:

Record ID:

31179

Source:

Print

Author:

Desmond Malone

Editor:

n/a

Title:

The Last Landfall

Place of Publication:

London

Date of Publication:

1936

Vol:

n/a

Page:

92

Additional Comments:

n/a

Citation:

Desmond Malone, The Last Landfall, (London, 1936), p. 92, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=31179, accessed: 21 December 2024

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Additional Comments:

None