ABSTRACT
Although hearing might be considered the most objective of the senses, its presence in travel narratives can be profoundly symbolic. How sounds are reported may tell us much about the traveller’s subjectivity. Through a discussion of a range of twentieth- and twenty-first-century texts, with a focus on H.V. Morton’s In Search of England (1927), Amryl Johnson’s Sequins for a Ragged Hem (1988) and Iain Sinclair’s London Orbital (2002), this chapter examines how sound transmits ideas about the past and present, nature and technology and cultural identity.
