Where Light in Darkness Lies: The story of the lighthouse by V. della Dora, Reaktion, 2022, £25 (hb), 280 pages, illustrations, index, ISBN 9781789145496
Where Light in Darkness Lies: The story of the lighthouse by V. della Dora, Reaktion, 2022, £25 (hb), 280 pages, illustrations, index, ISBN 9781789145496
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《黑暗中的光明所在：灯塔的故事》作者：V. della Dora，Reaktion，2022 年，25 英镑（HB），280 页，插图，索引，ISBN 9781789145496
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10.1080/00253359.2023.2194713
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注239自1811年以来一直运作。它坐落在一个危险的礁石上，每一次潮汐都会淹没在12英尺深的水下。灯塔建造者罗伯特·史蒂文森（Robert Stevenson）是19世纪早期工程学最伟大的成就之一。如果不是因为维罗妮卡·德拉·多拉那本引人入胜的书，我永远不会想到去寻找灯塔。她提供了一个清晰的帐户的设计和建设的钟岩，连同一个有趣的分析，其代表性的绘画由JMW特纳和一首诗由罗伯特苏塞。然而，令人困惑的是，她把它定位在“阿伯罗斯西南部”（第74页）。我们从蒙特罗斯前往阿布罗斯，在正确的方向（东南方向），我凝视着半明半暗的光线，终于发现了闪烁的信号，然后开始辨认远处的塔。现在，我已经完成了这一段，我有点再往南，在泰波特高灯塔，坎莫尔网站告诉我，这也是由史蒂文森和现在经营的第四港口。我以前在邓迪旅行时从未注意到它，但阅读德拉多拉的书让我更加关注这种结构，无论是在景观中还是在艺术品中。
Notes 239 been operating since 1811. It stands on a dangerous reef that is submerged by every tide to a depth of 12 feet, and its construction by the pioneering lighthouse builder Robert Stevenson was one of the finest achievements of early nineteenth-century engineering. I would never have thought of looking for the lighthouse if it was not for Veronica della Dora’s fascinating book. She offers a lucid account of the design and construction of the Bell Rock, together with an intriguing analysis of its representation in a painting by JMW Turner and a poem by Robert Southey. Rather bafflingly, though, she situates it ‘southwest of Arbroath’(p. 74). Staring into the semi-darkness in the correct direction (south-east) as we travelled from Montrose towards Arbroath, I finally spotted the flashing signal and then began to make out the tower in the far distance. Now that I have completed that paragraph, I am a little further south, looking across at the Tayport High lighthouse which the Canmore website tells me is also by Stevenson and now operated by Forth Ports. I have never noticed it before on my trips to Dundee but reading della Dora’s book has made me pay much more attention to such structures, whether visible in the landscape or represented in artworks.