American Lighthouses

Author : Ray Jones,Bruce Roberts,Cheryl Shelton-Roberts
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2012-07-03
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9780762786206

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American Lighthouses by Ray Jones,Bruce Roberts,Cheryl Shelton-Roberts Pdf

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.

Author : Bruce Roberts,Cheryl Shelton-Roberts
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 401 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2020-02-20
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9781493047017

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American Lighthouses by Bruce Roberts,Cheryl Shelton-Roberts Pdf

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. American Lighthouses offers more than just a tour of over 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.

Author : John Batchelor
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 52 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1995-02-23
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 0486283127

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North American Lighthouses Coloring Book by John Batchelor Pdf

Detailed drawings re-create 36 famous lighthouses of the United States and Canada, including those in Cape Hatteras, Montauk Point, Cape Cod, West Quoddy Head, Tybee Island, and other places along the shorelines of North America. Captions accompanying these accurately rendered illustrations provide valuable background information on location, height, and date of construction of each lighthouse.

Author : Francis Ross Holland
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1988-01-01
Category : Transportation
ISBN : 048625576X

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America's Lighthouses by Francis Ross Holland Pdf

A history of the lighthouse which examines its technical development in the United States

Author : Eric Jay Dolin
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2016-04-18
Category : History
ISBN : 9781631491535

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Brilliant Beacons: A History of the American Lighthouse by Eric Jay Dolin Pdf

"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

Author : Katherine L. House
Publisher : Chicago Review Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2008-03-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781613740460

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Lighthouses for Kids by Katherine L. House Pdf

Bringing to life an era when rivers, lakes, and oceans were the nation's highways and lighthouses served as traffic signals and maps, this comprehensive reference provides children with an in-depth history of lighthouses and firsthand stories of the challenges faced by lighthouse keepers. Filled with engaging activities such as learning how to tie a bowline knot and building a model lighthouse, this unique book also includes a field guide to U.S. lighthouses, places to visit, a time line, glossary, websites to explore, and a reading list for further study.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 52 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Government publications
ISBN : UCR:31210024881136

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Preserving Historic Lighthouses by Anonim Pdf

Author : F. Ross Holland, Jr.
Publisher : Wiley
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1995-07-19
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 0471143871

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Great American Lighthouses by F. Ross Holland, Jr. Pdf

Lighthouses are increasingly endangered by modernization and abandonment. Simple steel skeletons are replacing the picturesque, conical towers, squat screwpiles and Cape Cod styles so much a part of America's maritime history. This traveler's guide to more than 300 of the nation's most significant lighthouses and lightships includes an introductory look at the evolution of lighthouse technology and how these obsolete but beloved structures can be rescued.

Author : Dennis L Noble
Publisher : Naval Institute Press
Page : 237 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2014-01-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781612513454

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Lighthouses and Keepers by Dennis L Noble Pdf

From the East Coast to the West Coast, the Great Lakes to the Gulf of Mexico and Hawaiian Islands, this handsome book helps explain the lure of lighthouses in the United States. Among the most recognized structures of the maritime world, these lonely sentinels by the sea have long been the subject of paintings and photographs. Today they continue to capture public imagination as Americans flock to their sites for visits and volunteer to help preserve these endangered structures. This book covers all aspects of the subject, not only lighthouses and lightships but buoys, buoy tenders, fog signals, and their keepers. The work is as rich in historical information as it is in rarely seen photographs, and fourteen maps guide readers to the exact locations of the lighthouses. Readers are also treated to stories of shipwrecks and rescues, including the extraordinary story of Ida Lewis, head keeper of the light at Lime Rock, Rhode Island, who rescued eighteen people from the sea.

Author : Toby Chance,Peter Williams
Publisher : Fox Chapel Publishing
Page : 371 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2008-09-26
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781780091044

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Lighthouses by Toby Chance,Peter Williams Pdf

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.

Author : Daniel E. Dempster, Todd R. Berger
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1610604377

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Lighthouses of the Great Lakes by Daniel E. Dempster, Todd R. Berger Pdf

The lighthouses of the Great Lakes, for so long guiding ships to safety across the rough waters, still stand as beacons to adventurous travelers. Rich with vintage and contemporary photographs, picturing the lighthouses inside and out, by day and by night, the book takes you into the fascinating history of the structures at Split Rock, Sandusky, Big Sable Point, Old Mackinac Point Light, and Marblehead Light, to name a few. Berger’s stories about keepers and their families, horrific storms, and even encounters with ghosts bring to vivid life the lost world of these historic lighthouses. A thoroughly engaging tour page by page, the book also makes travel to these destinations easy as well as edifying, with maps, directions, and a comprehensive appendix listing all the current lighthouses.

Author : Elinor DeWire
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2018-03-08
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9781683340232

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Guide to Florida Lighthouses by Elinor DeWire Pdf

This engaging and colorful guidebook brings alive the many lighthouses of the Sunshine State. Some thirty Florida lighthouses guide ships south from the St. Marys River to the tip of the Keys, then north to Pensacola Bay. They comprise some of Florida's oldest and most historic structures and represent many diverse styles of architecture and daymarks. This new edition of the bestselling Guide to Florida Lighthouses has been updated with expanded profiles of the lighthouses, new travel information, more history, and recent photos.

Author : Elinor De Wire
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2023-09-24
Category : Travel
ISBN : 161060525X

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The Field Guide to Lighthouses of the New England Coast by Elinor De Wire Pdf

Icons of the American shoreline, the lighthouses of the Atlantic coast stand in eloquent witness to the nations rich seafaring history. A guide to the longest-standing sentinels of all, those of New England, this engaging illustrated handbook takes you on a fascinating, fact-filled tour of the historic lighthouses of Maine, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut, Vermont, and New Hampshire. Written by one of the nations most respected lighthouse historians, this pocket field guide is as informative as it is easy-to-use. You will find historical and architectural details, anecdotes about deadly storms, hauntings, and life as a lightkeeper, and directions to more than 150 lighthouses from Cape Neddick in Maine to Boston Light, Americas first true lighthouse. Here are the towers of limestone, granite, and iron gracing shipwrecking islands aptly called "The Miseries" and "The Graves," as well as the beacons once fueled by whale oil and kerosene still standing at colorfully named points such as Burnt Coat Harbor and Deer Island Thorofare. With eye-catching color photographs, vintage postcards, and historical black and white images, this field guide is the ideal companion for travelers, tourists, and history buffs alike, as they explore the lighthouses of New England.

Author : Daniel E. Dempster, Elinor De Wire
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2023-09-24
Category : Travel
ISBN : 1610604393

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Lighthouses of the South by Daniel E. Dempster, Elinor De Wire Pdf

Lighthouse authority Elinor De Wire presents the Southern beacons from the Outer Banks of North Carolina to Pensacola, Florida and salutes the courageous men and women who have tended them. Lighthouses of the South looks back at a bygone era of great storms, shipwrecks, and rescues; perilous fog and natural disasters; and the sequestered lives of lighthouse keepers at remote outposts along the sea.In Lighthouses of the South, readers will learn the history of such popular lighthouses as Cape Florida, Tybee Island, Cape Hatteras, Ocracoke, and Cape Henry. De Wire's lively stories are accented by Daniel Dempster's outstanding four-color photographs of lighthouses, interiors, and lenses. It also includes a bibliography and an appendix that lists all lighthouses of the Southeast Coast.

Author : Wes Oleszewski
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Great Lakes (North America)
ISBN : UOM:39015071187705

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Great Lakes Lighthouses, American & Canadian by Wes Oleszewski Pdf

Features over 300 lighthouses, with photos and descriptions, historical data, locations, and a comprehensive index. The only all Great Lakes guide!