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The Foghorn's Lament
- The Disappearing Music of the Coast
- Narrated by: Jennifer Lucy Allan
- Length: 8 hrs and 7 mins
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Summary
What does the foghorn sound like?
It sounds huge. It rattles. It rattles you and it hooks you. A booming, lonely sound echoing into the vastness of the sea. When Jennifer Lucy Allan hears the foghorn's colossal bellow for the first time, it marks the beginning of an obsession and a journey deep into the history of a sound that has carved out the identity and the landscape of coastlines around the world, from Scotland to San Francisco.
Within its sound is a maritime history of shipwrecks and lighthouse keepers, the story and science of our industrial past, and urban myths relaying tales of foghorns in speaker stacks, blasting out for coastal raves.
An odyssey told through the people who battled the sea and the sound, who lived with it and loathed it and one woman's intrepid voyage through the howling loneliness of nature.
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- CTB
- 24-07-23
Magic
Loved this book. Fan of Jennifer’s work already from the wire to the radio. This was an insightful rabbit hole and very grateful she made it
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- Karl Wooldridge
- 15-06-21
Where were the foghorns?
Interesting, but given that this is an audio book about sound it seemed like a missed opportunity not to have heard a few actual foghorns
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Not a blast.
For someone who supposedly spent a long time living in the lighthouse at Sumburgh Head, it seems strange they can’t even pronounce ‘Sumburgh’ correctly. Makes you think the whole thing is made up. Like one of the foghorn sounds, it’s long and drawn out, and eventually begins to irritate. Disappointing
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