
Lighthouses
Lynn F. Pearson(Author)
Shire Publications (Publisher)
Published on 1. April 2003
Book
Paperback/Softback
64 pages
978-0-7478-0556-4 (ISBN)
Description
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.
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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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Illustrations
1 col
Dimensions
Height: 201 mm
Width: 142 mm
Thickness: 3 mm
Weight
2558 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-7478-0556-4 (9780747805564)
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Previous edition
Lynn F. Pearson
Lighthouses
Book
04/1995
Shire Publications
€23.66
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Person
Lynn F. Pearson is an architectural historian and photographer specialising in research on unheralded structures from seaside architecture to multi-storey car parks and mausoleums. She has published fourteen books including three Shire Albums.
Content
Private Lights and Public Provision
The First Rock Lighthouses
Lighthouse Construction in the Nineteenth Century
Showing the Light
The Lightkeeper and the Modern Lighthouse
A Selective Gazeteer of British and Irish Lighthouses
Further Reading
Websites
Places to Visit
Index of Lighthouses
The First Rock Lighthouses
Lighthouse Construction in the Nineteenth Century
Showing the Light
The Lightkeeper and the Modern Lighthouse
A Selective Gazeteer of British and Irish Lighthouses
Further Reading
Websites
Places to Visit
Index of Lighthouses