Record Number: 33550
Reading Experience:
Evidence:
'Down in the village street stood our motor, the ceiling light switched on, brilliantly illuminating the interior, and inside it, oblivious to the crowd that pressed against the windows, reclined our English mechanic (he who had driven the Ford until its collapse), reading Gibbon.'
Century:1900-1945
Date:Between 1 Apr 1926 and 30 Apr 1926
Country:Persia
Timeevening
night
city: Yazd-i-Khast
county: Abadeh County, Fars Province
(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 Jan
Socio-Economic Group:Unknown/NA
Occupation:Driver for Vita Sackville-West in Persian travels
Religion:Unknown
Country of Origin:England
Country of Experience:Persia
Listeners present if any:e.g family, servants, friends
n/a
Additional Comments:
n/a
Text Being Read:
Author: Title:unknown
Genre:Unknown
Form of Text:Print: Book
Publication Detailsn/a
Provenanceowned
Source Information:
Record ID:33550
Source:Vita Sackville-West
Editor:n/a
Title:Twelve Days in Persia
Place of Publication:London
Date of Publication:2009
Vol:n/a
Page:22
Additional Comments:
Page references are from the 2009 edition published by I.B. Tauris. The book was first published by Hogarth in 1928.
Citation:
Vita Sackville-West, Twelve Days in Persia, (London, 2009), p. 22, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=33550, accessed: 25 April 2024
Additional Comments:
I have not been able to identify the driver of the Ford (there were two cars) for Vita Sackville-West's 12 day expedition on the Bakhtiari Road in April 1926. The Gibbon title is not mentioned, but is almost certainly 'Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire', possibly in a pocket edition.
