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THE FOGHORN’S LAMENT: The Disappearing Music of the Coast by Jennifer Lucy Allan book review
THE FOGHORN’S LAMENT: The Disappearing Music of the Coast by Jennifer Lucy Allan book review
Written by
Olivia Edward
by Jennifer Lucy Allan • White Rabbit
There was a time, in the early 1900s, when fog horns bellowed out from all along Britain’s coastlines. Today, they’ve largely been silenced, but they still linger on in collective memories, informing notions of lonely seascapes and, at times, Britishness itself.
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