Lighthouses
Book Details
Format
Paperback / Softback
Book Series
Shire Library
ISBN-10
0747805563
ISBN-13
9780747805564
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Imprint
Shire Publications
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Apr 1st, 2003
Print length
64 Pages
Weight
160 grams
Dimensions
21.00 x 15.10 x 0.30 cms
Product Classification:
Public buildings: civic, commercial, industrial, etcArchaeologyShips & boats: general interest
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The story of the lighthouse is as fascinating and diverse as the design of the buildings themselves. Roman and medieval attempts to help seafarers navigate, using beacons and other seamarks, preceded elegant Georgian lights, followed in the nineteenth century by huge rock-based lighthouses such as Eddystone, which were great feats of Victorian civil engineering. This book relates the story of their construction, often undertaken in desperately dangerous and stormy conditions, looks at the lives of their keepers, and considers how automation has changed the modern lighthouse. A gazetteer gives brief details of over 160 lights around the coasts of Great Britain and Ireland.
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