Record Number: 18436
Reading Experience:
Evidence:
'Our library too was a weighty affair. Shipton had the longest novel that had been published in recent years, Warren a 2,000-page work on physiology.[...] On Good Friday [...] the rest of us lay about, played chess or read the less technical portion of our curiously assorted library. This included "Gone with the Wind" (Shipton) "Seventeenth Century Verse" (Oliver), "Montaigne's Essays" (Warren), "Don Quixote" (self), "Adam Bede" (Lloyd), "Martin Chuzzlewit" (Smythe), "Stones of Venice" (Odell) and a few others. Warren,who rejoined us that day, besides his weighty tome on Physiology -in which there were several funny anecdotes if one took the trouble to look - had with him a yet weightier volume on the singularly inappropriate subject of Tropical Diseases.'
Century:1900-1945
Date:15 Apr 1938
Country:Tibet
Timedaytime
Place:other location: slopes of Mount Everest Tibetan approach Camp I
Type of Experience(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 Aug 1907
Socio-Economic Group:Professional / academic / merchant / farmer
Occupation:mountaineer and writer
Religion:unknown
Country of Origin:English parents, born in Ceylon
Country of Experience:Tibet
Listeners present if any:e.g family, servants, friends
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Additional Comments:
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Text Being Read:
Author: Title:Gone with the Wind
Genre:Fiction
Form of Text:Print: Book
Publication Details1936 Macmillan
Provenanceunknown
Source Information:
Record ID:18436
Source:H.W.(Bill) Tilman
Editor:n/a
Title:Everest 1938 in: The Seven Mountain-Travel Books
Place of Publication:London
Date of Publication:2003 (1948)
Vol:n/a
Page:464-465
Additional Comments:
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Citation:
H.W.(Bill) Tilman, Everest 1938 in: The Seven Mountain-Travel Books, (London, 2003 (1948)), p. 464-465, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=18436, accessed: 19 February 2025
Additional Comments:
Shipton later made a failed summit attempt as did Tilman. 'Gone With the Wind' won the Pulitzer Prize in 1937.