By Grant Gordon
Whilst his father dies all of sudden, furnish Gordon's existence descends into freefall. Having lengthy harboured an obsession with the British in India, and particularly what they did for sport, furnish is going to discover the golfing classes the British outfitted throughout the Raj and comes to a decision to play them.
Along the best way, he has a golfing lesson at the maximum golfing path on the earth, within the mountains of Kashmir; negotiates cobras, peacocks and monkeys in Delhi - on a path moulded through the British round the ruins of a Mughal emperor's palace; has a around with Indian military colonels within the shadow of Everest; will get soaking wet a number of occasions over at the wettest golfing direction in the world; and searches on Tiger Hill for Darjeeling's misplaced British golfing direction. In Agra he tees off in complete view of the Taj Mahal, whereas in Lucknow, the ghosts of the well-known siege in the course of the 1857 Mutiny appear to impact his swing. all through, he's confronted with the problem of having his golfing golf equipment to more and more vague destinations, utilizing an array of quirky shipping.
As furnish travels throughout India, he slowly starts to appreciate the connection he had along with his father. Cobras within the tough is a ebook approximately golfing but in addition approximately fathers and sons, and the ways that they keep on with, or refuse to persist with, in each one other's footsteps.
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On the other hand, there should be gangways, at least two and a half feet wide, r u n n i n g all down the length of the stack room between the free ends of the book racks and the two lengthwise walls. No doubt it would save space if we had one single central gangway instead of two side gangways. But, in this case, avoidance of possible damage from rain and direct sun is more important than the saving of space. 1405 AESTHETICS ;[ T h e school library should be beautiful, and everyt h i n g possible should be done to produce an atmosphere of serenity, composure and loveliness.
Further it will be assumed that only one unit class, usually about 40, will occupy the readingroom at any one moment. It goes without saying that there will be hardly any chance of further additions to staff. 1402 OPEN ACCESS Another will work pamphlets, and others 30 assumption made is that the school library on the open-access system. e. the book racks will not be provided with doors, locks and keys. The pupils will be permitted to walk amidst the book racks; they will be allowed to handle any books they like; they will be free to take them to the readingroom without any restriction whatever.
There should be wall space for pictures and space for flower vases; and provision should be made for hangings like curtains. Walls should be distemper-washed—those of the stack room in pearl-grey and those of the reading32 LIBRARY BUILDINGS room in a soothing colour such as green. The floor must be smooth and without holes and crevices which accumulate dirt. ^ 141 THE STACK ROOM It is best to start giving details of liie stack room with a description of the unit book rack. It consists of four bays—two on each face, the two faces beingseparated by a partition of expanded metal or weldmesh.