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Coiling in Anarchy

Rosemary Hill: Top of the Lighthouse, 16 February 2023

Where Light in Darkness Lies: The Story of the Lighthouse 
by Veronica dellaDora.
Reaktion, 280 pp., £25, March 2022, 978 1 78914 549 6
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... to Poseidon at points where the risks to ships suggested it would be wise to placate him and, as Veronica dellaDora points out in her book, neither the advent of Christianity nor advances in technology have quite eclipsed older faiths. On the island of Kea in the Aegean, the chapel of St Nicholas stands on a rocky ...

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