America's Lighthouses: An Illustrated History (Dover Maritime)
Description
"A detailed, scholarly, masterly book…and yet the romance is still there." — Chicago TribuneBeacons of light along the shore have guided mariners for thousands of years — from the days when olive oil lamps burned on darkened hillsides to signal the location of ancient harbors, to modern times when automated stations sent out 350,000 candlepower beams that cut through darkness and fog.The present volume, the first full-scale study of the United States Lighthouse Service, is a celebration of these vanishing symbols of security. Written by a historian of the Nation...
ISBN(s)
048625576X, 9780486255767
