Record Number: 33608
Reading Experience:
Evidence:
From Mukalla I made my way with a small caravan of donkeys, inland to the wadi Du'an [...] But in Du'an I sickened, and in the great wadi Hadhramaut I very nearly died. I lay there for a fortnight facing, like someone condemned, a death that seemed both impossible and inevitable. In the intervals of weakness I read Virgil [Latin quotations from 'Aeneid' Book III, 493 and Book VI, 640 and the 'Georgics', Book III, 290 follow]
Century:1900-1945
Date:Between 25 Feb 1933 and 13 Mar 1933
Country:Yemen
Timen/a
Place:city: Shibam
county: Shibam, Hadhramaut
(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:Female
Date of Birth:31 Jan 1893
Socio-Economic Group:Professional / academic / merchant / farmer
Occupation:Travel writer
Religion:Christian
Country of Origin:England
Country of Experience:Yemen
Listeners present if any:e.g family, servants, friends
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Additional Comments:
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Text Being Read:
Author: Title:Aeneid
Genre:Poetry
Form of Text:Print: Book
Publication Detailsread in Latin
Provenanceowned
Source Information:
Record ID:33608
Source:Freya Stark
Editor:n/a
Title:The Coast of Incense: Autobiography 1933-1939
Place of Publication:London
Date of Publication:1953
Vol:n/a
Page:19-20
Additional Comments:
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Citation:
Freya Stark, The Coast of Incense: Autobiography 1933-1939, (London, 1953), p. 19-20, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=33608, accessed: 26 April 2024
Additional Comments:
Dame Freya Madeline Stark (31 January 1893 - 9 May 1993) was a British traveller and explorer. Stark was ill with malaria and a heart condition from c.25 February 1933 to 13 March 1933, when she was effectively bedridden. Both the 'Aeneid' and the 'Georgics' were read in Latin.
