Lighthouses of Europe

Author: Thomas Ebelt
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1472958748
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 178

Book Description
Europe has over 40,000 miles of coastline, stretching from the icy black waters of the Baltic to the deceptively serene Mediterranean. With many of Europe's countries bordering a sea, the need for lighthouses has spanned much of the continent for centuries. Lighthouses hold a perennial fascination for many of us - an indicator of danger, a beacon of the sea, laced with history and romance and a magnet for coastal walkers and visitors. Photographer Thomas Ebelt was charged with capturing beautiful imagery of the most stunning lighthouses for a lavish calendar, but on his journeys along Europe's coasts he found enough outstanding structures and dramatic landscapes to fill a calendar every year for a decade or more. This book is a collection of his finest photographs, from Poland and Estonia, via Iceland, around Scotland and England, and towards Malta and Sicily. Each lighthouse is accompanied by illuminating text about their history and construction. Specifications boxes provide information on position, identification features, height of the tower, height of the light, range and year of construction.

Lighthouses of Europe

Author: Daniel Charles
Publisher:
ISBN: 0823027783
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 239

Book Description
From Scotland to the gates of Africa, this stunning book features gorgeous color photos of over 100 lighthouses on the Atlantic coast of Western Europe. For each geographical region, the author recreates the fascinating, age-old history of the lighthouses, their beacons, and their fascinating maritime significance. 250 color photos.

Brilliant Beacons: A History of the American Lighthouse

Author: Eric Jay Dolin
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 1631491539
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 448

Book Description
"What Moby-Dick is to whales, Brilliant Beacons is to lighthouses—a transformative account of a familiar yet mystical subject." —Laurence Bergreen, author of Columbus: The Four Voyages In this "magnificent compendium" (New Republic), best-selling author Eric Jay Dolin presents the definitive history of American lighthouses, and in so doing "illuminate[s] the history of America itself" (Entertainment Weekly). Treating readers to a memorable cast of characters and "fascinating anecdotes" (New York Review of Books), Dolin shows how the story of the nation, from a regional backwater colony to global industrial power, can be illustrated through its lighthouses—from New England to the Gulf of Mexico, the Great Lakes, the Pacific Coast, and all the way to Alaska and Hawaii. A Captain and Classic Boat Best Nautical Book of 2016

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Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Acetylene
Languages : en
Pages : 1104

Book Description

Lighthouses

Author: Toby Chance
Publisher: Fox Chapel Publishing
ISBN: 1780091044
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 371

Book Description
The Great Exhibition, Crystal Palace, 1851: James Chance, of the glass-making firm Chance Brothers, is nervously showcasing a new lens, that, unknown to him, will revolutionise lighthouse production, propel his family business into a position of world leadership, save countless lives and have far-reaching consequences for trade, empire and the map of the world.This is where "Lighthouses" begins. The true-life story that follows is of one man and his family's unexpected role in an exciting race to perfect this technology, against European rivals and colleagues, as they strive to regain for Britain the leadership position she had lost to the French in the 1820s.This fascinating story places James Chance and the Chance Brothers firm against the backdrop of a time in which lighthouse manufacture was transformed from a craft into a scientific, high-precision industry. As a tool for globalisation, and with immense strategic and economic value, lighthouses helped to establish a network of communications that transformed the trade maps of countries and empires.

American Lighthouses

Author: Ray Jones
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 0762786205
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 369

Book Description
A celebration of the great American lighthouses, their keepers, their histories, and their ongoing stories For more than two centuries, lighthouses have helped sailors find their way through treacherous waters, guiding them home or taking them safely through passages on their way to adventure. These historic towers and houses form a sparkling chain of lights along our coasts, a reminder of the past echoing with adventure and mystery, a lure for travelers looking for a glimpse into a romantic past. Completely revised and updated, American Lighthouses offers more than just a tour of 450 beautiful and historic navigational beacons dotting the coasts and lakes of the United States. This fully illustrated, one-of-a-kind handbook details their history and architecture and provides full information on visiting or viewing them. Included are many endangered lights, threatened by erosion or lack of funding, as well as “ghost lights,” which are no longer standing.

The World's Lighthouses

Author: D. Alan Stevenson
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 0486157083
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 477

Book Description
This superb, profusely illustrated survey by noted authority recounts the history of seamarks from antiquity to the early 19th century. 261 black-and-white illustrations.

Eastern Great Lakes Lighthouses

Author: Ray Jones
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Photography
Languages : en
Pages : 100

Book Description
Sixteen lighthouses were built before the Revolution; hundreds more have been built since, creating the world's most complex system of navigational aid. No other national lighthouse system compares with that of the United States in size and diversity of architecture and engineering.

Lightships and Lighthouses

Author: Frederick Arthur Ambrose Talbot
Publisher: DigiCat
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 277

Book Description
DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "Lightships and Lighthouses" by Frederick Arthur Ambrose Talbot. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.

The Lighthouses of the Chesapeake

Author: Robert De Gast
Publisher: JHU Press
ISBN: 9780801847653
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 194

Book Description
This text features a sequence of 32 photographic essays, documenting in 170 haunting images each of the lighthouses still standing along the shoreline of the Chesapeake Bay. For each lighthouse there is a photograph of the structure in its setting, a view looking out from the lighthouse, and a close-up of some singular detail of the building. The text discusses how and why the lighthouses were built, important events in their history, and in some cases the lives of their keepers. The sequence of lighthouses follows an imaginary journey around the Bay, starting at Cape Henry, site of the oldest existing light.