Record Number: 29933

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Reading Experience:

Evidence:

'Up at 7. Most of the day reading Doughty and trying with Gertrude Bell to settle route after Buraida.[...] Continued to glean for a Najd glossary from Doughty's Index till nearly midnight.'

Century:

1900-1945

Date:

25 May 1917

Country:

Iraq (Mesopotamia)

Time

morning
daytime
night

Place:

city: Baghdad
specific address: High Commissioner Percy Cox's house (old Deutsche Orient Bank building)

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:

Ronald Storrs

Age:

Adult (18-100+)

Gender:

Male

Date of Birth:

19 Nov 1881

Socio-Economic Group:

Professional / academic / merchant / farmer

Occupation:

diplomat (colonial civil servant) and army officer

Religion:

Christian (Anglican)

Country of Origin:

England

Country of Experience:

Iraq (Mesopotamia)

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

n/a

Additional Comments:

n/a

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Text Being Read:

Author:

Charles M. Doughty

Title:

Travels in Arabia Deserta

Genre:

Geography / Travel

Form of Text:

Print: Book

Publication Details

Must have been first edn. (1888) Cambridge ('at the University Press'). since 2nd edn., with introduction by T. E. Lawrence, did not appear until 1921

Provenance

unknown

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Source Information:

Record ID:

29933

Source:

Print

Author:

Ronald Storrs

Editor:

n/a

Title:

Orientations

Place of Publication:

London (Readers Union Edn.)

Date of Publication:

1939 (1937)

Vol:

n/a

Page:

247

Additional Comments:

Diary entry 25 May 1917.

Citation:

Ronald Storrs, Orientations, (London (Readers Union Edn.), 1939 (1937)), p. 247, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=29933, accessed: 18 May 2024

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Additional Comments:

None