Brown Goo like Marmite
Neal Ascherson: Memories of the Fog, 8 October 2015
London Fog: The Biography
by Christine Corton.
Harvard, 408 pp., £22.95, November 2015,978 0 674 08835 1 Show More
by Christine Corton.
Harvard, 408 pp., £22.95, November 2015,
“... scientifically – should never be seen again. But then, that’s what they thought before 1962.Christine Corton’s excellent book explores three questions: how people accounted for London fog, what they did about it, and how it became such an enormous, apparently inexhaustible cultural resource and metaphor. Liability to fog has ultimately something ... ”
