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Scotch girls loading herring into barrels at Yarmouth, where for centuries the humble kipper was a major source of trade: 'What the whale hath in bigness the herring hath in number', notes Thomas Fuller in his Worthies (1662).
Follow Thomas Nashe's trail to Yarmouth in Lenten Stuff (1599) and walk along 'the finest quay in England' with Daniel Defoe. Listen to 'the wind getting up at sea' with Charles Dickens' David Copperfield (1850) or enjoy a picnic at Ormesby Sands with Anthony Trollope in Can You Forgive Her? (1864). Meet Shakespeare's Falstaff at Caister Castle and enfant terrible Henry Sutton on the seafront of Gorleston (1995), where life is 'all about waiting.' Find a tragic tree house in Amanda Dalton's Room of Leaves (1996) and witness Robinson Crusoe's first shipwreck on the shores of Winterton.
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