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YET another book about the Norfolk Broads, or, as the author prefers to call them, the “English Lagoons.” One can hardly credit that anything fresh could be said on this well-worn subject, but Mr. Emerson's book differs from all that have gone before in being a continuous narrative of a twelve months' sojourn on the Broads in his pleasure wherry, the Maid of the Mist, and presents to us a graphic picture of these waters under their winter aspect as well as under a summer sky. Much that he has written, more particularly his excellent descriptions of the peculiar scenery of this remarkable admixture of land and water in mid-winter, is highly interesting. The atmospheric effects under various conditions of storm and sunshine, by moonlight and at early dawn, display a keen artistic perception, but the incidents as a rule are trivial in the extreme in fact, and the constant use of the vernacular becomes tiring—whole chapters (e.g. Chapter xxi. of six pages) might have been well omitted.
On English Lagoons.
By P. H. Emerson. (London: David Nutt, 1893.)
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S., J. On English Lagoons. Nature 48, 515 (1893). https://doi.org/10.1038/048515a0
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