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The Last Lighthouse Keeper

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Format Paperback / Softback
ISBN-10 1760875384
ISBN-13 9781760875381
Publisher Allen & Unwin
Imprint Allen & Unwin
Country of Manufacture AU
Country of Publication GB
Publication Date Jul 2nd, 2020
Print length 352 Pages
Weight 482 grams
Dimensions 15.40 x 23.20 x 3.30 cms
Ksh 2,700.00
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A beautiful memoir from John Cook, one of Tasmania's last kerosene lighthouse keepers. A story about madness and wilderness, shining a light onto the vicissitudes of love and nature.

In Tasmania, John Cook is known as ''The Keeper of the Flame''. As one of Australia''s longest-serving lighthouse keepers, John spent 26 years tending Tasmania''s well-known kerosene ''lights'' at Tasman Island, Maatsuyker Island and Bruny Island.

From sleepless nights keeping the lights alive, battling the wind and sea as they ripped at gutters and flooded stores, raising a joey, tending sheep and keeping ducks and chickens, the life of a keeper was one of unexpected joy and heartbreak. But for John, nothing was more heartbreaking than the introduction of electric lights, and the lighthouses that were left empty forever.

Evocatively told, The Last Lighthouse Keeper is a love story between a man and a dying way of life, as well as a celebration of wilderness and solitude.


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