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Pearson, Lynn F.

 
9780747805564: Lighthouses

Synopsis

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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À propos de l'auteur

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.

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9780747802754: Lighthouses

Edition présentée

ISBN 10 :  0747802750 ISBN 13 :  9780747802754
Editeur : Shire Publications, 1995
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