The Life of a Fishing Town

The Life of a Fishing Town

Constant Wonder - Season 2022, Episode 766 , Segment 1

Life in a Cornish Fishing Village

Episode: Life in a Cornish Fishing Village

  • Dec 1, 2020 7:00 pm
  • 52:32

Guest: Lamorna Ash, author of "Dark, Salt, Clear: The Life of a Fishing Town" Lamorna Ash, a 22-year-old university student from London, traveled to a remote fishing town in Cornwall to gather research for her thesis about how fishing shapes a community. What she finds shapes her own coming-of-age experience. She shares vivid stories from her time on a trawler with four seasoned fishermen, encountering seasickness, all kinds of fish guts, and the constant tension between land and sea, in short—a people and place fading from our urban world.