Record

StorageSiteUCL Special Collections
LevelFile
Reference Number COMFORT/D/7/1
TitleThe Silver River
Date3c1937
DescriptionThe Silver River: Being A Diary of a Schoolboy in the South Atlantic, 1936. (London: Chapman and Hall, 1938. Typescript draft with handwritten edits.
Extent1 envelope
AdminHistoryPublished in 1938. Comfort's first book, The Silver River, was in print before he left school. It is a record of ten weeks at sea during the summer of 1936. Comfort sailed with his father on a Dutch tramp to Buenos Aires, calling at Madeira; they returned on a Greek boat via Dakar. His narrative consists of impressions of place and seascape, of notes on life and manners, of botanical and zoological observations.
AccessStatusOpen
AccessConditionsThe papers are available subject to the usual conditions of access to Archives and Manuscripts material, after the completion of a Reader's Undertaking.
Related MaterialDiary of trip to Argentina, Documents from trip to Argentina
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