Author: Christopher Nicholson Publisher: ISBN: 9781904445593 Category : Antiques & Collectibles Languages : en Pages : 0
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This book from Christopher Nicholson concentrates on vintage postcards featuring Britain's remotest lighthouses of all. Within these pages are snapshots of the past and moments in time from the very edge of Britain.
Author: Veronica Strang Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 1317131614 Category : Science Languages : en Pages : 504
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What is a lighthouse? What does it mean? What does it do? This book shows how exchanging knowledge across disciplinary boundaries can transform our thinking. Adopting an unconventional structure, this book involves the reader in a multivocal conversation between scholars, poets and artists. Seen through their individual perspectives, lighthouses appear as signals of safety, beacons of enlightenment, phallic territorial markers, and memorials of historical relationships with the sea. However, the interdisciplinary conversation also reveals underlying and sometimes unexpected connections. It elucidates the human and non-human evolutionary adaptations that use light for signalling and warning; the visual languages created by regularity and synchronicity in pulses of light; how lighthouses have generated a whole ‘family’ of related material objects and technologies; and the way that light flows between social and material worlds.
Author: Mary L. Martin Publisher: Schiffer Pub Limited ISBN: 9780764320873 Category : Antiques & Collectibles Languages : en Pages : 128
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This book examines the postcard keepsakes that lighthouse lovers have collected since the turn of the 20th Century, documenting lighthouses from California to Alaska, and the Florida Keys to Nova Scotia. You'll see lighthouses from land, air, and sea levels as works of art, from early hand-tinted photographs and line drawings, beautiful linen prints of the 1930s and '40s, and contemporary press productions. Publishing information and current values are important tools for today's collectors.