WORLD SOUNDSCAPE PROJECT
SOUND REFERENCES IN LITERATURE



702.

...staccato orders ... bells struck ... (the explosion was a) sound beyond hearing... decks of raddled ships rang with reverberations and clangs as fragments struck them.

Hugh McLennan, Barometer Rising, McClelland & Stewart, Toronto, 1941, p. 150-154

PLACE: Halifax, N.S.

TIME: 1917

CIRCUMSTANCE: an explosion which destroyed the city


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