Record Number: 34209
Reading Experience:
Evidence:
So, after riding with friends on Dartmoor by old ways known and loved since childhood, I would sit on their tennis court through the afternoons and read Philby's Arabian journeys, and lift my eyes from the brown desert-horizon of the pages, to see the Teign valley below me, the gentle steepness of slopes where every patch of warm gorse, every singing of heather or bending of grass in the south-west wind was known to me, with the voice of the hidden river slipping through forest pools.
Century:1900-1945
Date:Between 1 Mar 1929 and 31 May 1929
Country:England
Timeafternoon
Place:county: Devon
other location: tennis court
(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:31 Jan 1893
Socio-Economic Group:Professional / academic / merchant / farmer
Occupation:Explorer and travel writer
Religion:Christian
Country of Origin:England
Country of Experience:England
Listeners present if any:e.g family, servants, friends
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Additional Comments:
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Text Being Read:
Author: Title:The Heart of Arabia: A Record of Travel and Exploration
Genre:Geography / Travel
Form of Text:Print: Book
Publication DetailsLondon: Constable, 1922
Provenanceunknown
Source Information:
Record ID:34209
Source:Freya Stark
Editor:n/a
Title:Beyond Euphrates: Autobiography 1928-1933
Place of Publication:London
Date of Publication:1951
Vol:n/a
Page:30
Additional Comments:
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Citation:
Freya Stark, Beyond Euphrates: Autobiography 1928-1933, (London, 1951), p. 30, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=34209, accessed: 25 April 2024
Additional Comments:
Dame Freya Madeline Stark (31 January 1893 - 9 May 1993) was a British explorer and travel writer. This reading experience took place in Spring 1929.
