Lamorna Ash on Dark, Salt, Clear

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🗓️ 8 February 2021

⏱️ 74 minutes

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Lamorna Ash talks about her book Dark, Salt, Clear with EconTalk host Russ Roberts. Ash leaves London and moves to the small fishing village of Newlyn, near where her mother grew up on the Cornish coast. In Newlyn, everything revolves around fishing. Ash gets herself a bunk on a trawler and quickly learns how to gut fish with sharp knives on a rocking boat in the middle of the night. And so much more.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Econ Talk, part of the Library of Economics and Liberty.
0:06.4	I'm your host, Russ Roberts of Stanford University's Hoover Institution.
0:11.0	Our website is econtalk.org where you can subscribe, comment on this podcast, and find links
0:16.3	and other information related to today's conversation.
0:19.0	We'll also find our archives where you can listen to every episode we've ever done going
0:23.3	back to 2006.
0:25.5	Our email address is mailadycontalk.org. We'd love to hear from you.
0:32.2	Today is January 20th, 2021, and my guest is author LaMorna Ash.
0:36.0	She is the author of Dark Salt Clear, the life of a fishing town.
0:40.9	I want to thank Plantronics for providing today's guest with the Plantronics 5220 headset.
0:46.1	LaMorna, welcome to Econ Talk.
0:49.2	Thank you so much for having me.
0:50.8	This is a beautiful, evocative, eloquently written book.
0:55.2	It's the story of your time in a Cornish fishing village in the southwest corner of England
0:59.4	in the town of Newland.
1:01.3	How long were you there?
1:02.6	Did you go there with a plan of what you wanted to experience while being there and why
1:07.4	did you go?
1:08.4	I went there twice, and the first time was it for a month.
1:12.6	The first time I went there, it was purely for academic purposes.
1:16.7	I was 22 and I was doing a Masters in Anthropology, which was not a subject I'd studied before.
1:23.6	The best part about Anthropology was that your dissertation was based on fieldwork.
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