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Where Light in Darkness Lies: The Story of the Lighthouse
by Veronica della Dora.
Reaktion, 280 pp., £25, March 2022,978 1 78914 549 6 Show More
by Veronica della Dora.
Reaktion, 280 pp., £25, March 2022,
“... periodically, from woodworm. The light came from candles, and in December 1755, the keeper, Henry Hall, found the lantern room on fire. No lives were lost that night but Hall himself died twelve days later, after complaining that his insides felt as if they were burning. It was not, as his friends had supposed, some form of post-traumatic shock. While ... ”