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Author : Donna Mishler
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1999-08-01
Category : Lighthouses
ISBN : 1893709027
Author : Elinor De Wire
Publisher : Voyageur Press
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2011-03-11
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781610597661
Interest in the history and preservation of lighthouses has never been stronger. Lighthouses of the Mid-Atlantic Coast details the history of lighthouses and much more, and shows why these structures continue to fascinate us. Discover what life for lighthouse keepers was really like. Learn about the history of U.S. colonial lighthouses and the role lighthouses have played in several wars. Meet the brave, nefarious, and colorful characters who served as lighthouse keepers and government overseers. Learn about lighthouse technology and architecture and find out how these treasures are being preserved.
Author : Wayne Kirklin
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2007-09-30
Category : Photography
ISBN : 9781625844293
Light boats, light vessels, lightships—before radar, depth-finders and satellite-guided navigation, mariners relied on floating lighthouses that lingered offshore as warning beacons in perilous waters. Moored near shifting shoals and treacherous reefs, lightships remained on station during all weather conditions and played a vital role in keeping America’s waterways safe for navigation. From 1820 to 1985, light vessels warned of treacherous seas and pointed the way to safe harbors. In Lightships, author Wayne Kirklin chronicles the eighty-five ships that protected the mid-Atlantic coast and the heyday of these special craft. From New York Harbor to the southernmost edge of North Carolina’s notorious Cape Fear, Kirklin details the unsung role this fleet played in keeping America’s merchant marines safe. Read Lightships to discover a forgotten but vital element of American maritime history.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Voyageur Press (MN)
Page : 162 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2011-03-11
Category : Photography
ISBN : 9780760339510
Interest in the history and preservation of lighthouses has never been stronger. Lighthouses of the Mid-Atlantic Coast details the history of lighthouses and much more, and shows why these structures continue to fascinate us. Discover what life for lighthouse keepers was really like. Learn about the history of U.S. colonial lighthouses and the role lighthouses have played in several wars. Meet the brave, nefarious, and colorful characters who served as lighthouse keepers and government overseers. Learn about lighthouse technology and architecture and find out how these treasures are being preserved.
Author : Paul Eric Johnson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:932629447
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 16 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Lighthouses
ISBN : UOM:39015049925830
Author : Ray Jones
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 98 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 1564409848
This book takes readers on a regional tour of 49 lighthouses and 4 lightships from the Hudson River to Chesapeake Bay. Featuring the masterful photographs of Bruce Roberts and Ray Jones compelling narratives, these magnificent books are histories, guidebooks, and celebrations of the lighthouses of New York, New Jersey, Delaware, Maryland, and Virginia. Profiles include complete details on directions and visiting hours. (8 1/2 X 11, 86 pages, maps, color and b/w photos, bibliography, index)
Author : Ray Jones
Publisher : Facts On File
Page : 98 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1999-08
Category : History
ISBN : 0791054896
Provides historical background and descriptive information on some of the most significant lighthouses on the coast from New York to Virginia.
Author : David J Schryver
Publisher : Independently Published
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2022-09-24
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9798835394036
Lighthouses were originally built to guide mariners on their journeys and to help them avoid hazards of the seas. This book focuses on the lights along the mid Atlantic coast ... the states of Maryland, Delaware, New Jersey and eastern Pennsylvania. We start in Maryland just south of Washington DC on the east side of the Potomac River and travel counter-clockwise around the state. After coming up the west side of the Chesapeake Bay and through Baltimore, we then proceed south along the Chesapeake's east side. The next leg of our journey is north through Delaware into Philadelphia, Pennsylvania to catch the only lighthouse in eastern Pennsylvania. We then circle through New Jersey. Each entry will give directions on finding that structure, pertinent information on it and other interesting facts about it as well as a full-page color photograph of the tower. There is no need for a tour guide with this book in your possession. You will visit all of the towers in these states that accessed without inordinate expense or advanced planning. Whether you are a lighthouse aficionado who loves chasing these classic structures and or a young family on a budget who is looking for a low-cost tourist option, everyone should find something of interest in these pages. Above all, enjoy the lighthouses.
Author : Ray Jones
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Delaware
ISBN : 1575870789
With individual guides that cover Civil War sites in specific areas, this series uses unique formatting to make the terrain of each regions' battles come to life. Each guide features a heavy-duty paper stock laminated for durability, with an area map on the back of the fully opened piece. When the piece is folded horizontally in half, pinpoint descriptions and photos of key sites fill each accordion-folded side.
Author : Linda Osborne Cynowa
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2023-07-24
Category : History
ISBN : 9781439678381
Lighthouses of the North Atlantic Coast will explore many of the lighthouses and breakwater, pier, and reef lights in Maine, New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut, New York, New Jersey, and Delaware. Whether it is Portland Head Lighthouse in Maine or Fenwick Island Lighthouse in Delaware, then as now, people love to visit the lights while on holiday and send postcards back home. Many of these important navigational aids are still in existence and can be visited.
Author : Eric Jay Dolin
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2016-04-18
Category : History
ISBN : 9781631491535
"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 : Jean Guichard,Ken Trethewey
Publisher : Flammarion-Pere Castor
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2004-09-18
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 2080304127
The rapid development of ocean navigation and deep-sea fishing in the nineteenth century led to a dramatic rise in shipwrecks. Tens of thousands of sailors disappeared over the course of the century. The great nations that border the North Atlantic found a technological answer to this human disaster: they developed a spectacular network of lighthouses along their coastlines. These constructions pay homage to those lost at sea and celebrate the genius of modern civilization. Whether on immense cliffs or on reefs submerged at every high tide, man has strived to erect constructions of such resistance that we can only marvel at them today. Built on snow-covered slopes of lava, overlooking spectacular rocks that seem to have sprung only recently from the earth, isolated on small outcrops out to sea, stretched to their limits under the shock of the waves; often festive, dressed in bright colors or pastel shades, magnified by the rays of light between stormy showers, they are always a delight for the eyes. Lighthouses have served humanity for thousands of years. Today's lighthouses, whether old or new, man-powered or electronically operated, are monuments to man's will to challenge the elements. Steeped in history and tales of heroism, theseintriguing edifices have an extraordinary capacity to capture the public imagination. For North Atlantic Lighthouses, acclaimed maritime photographer Jean Guichard has undertaken a series of helicopter flights to take new images of nearly one hundred of the finest lighthouses all over the North Atlantic, from the United States and Canada to Iceland, the British Isles, and France. Guichard perfectly captures the symbolic strength of his subject matter, producing captivating images in all seasons, from the calm summer months when the lighthouses can have a lick of paint, to the wild winter storms that batter them and test their resilience to the utmost. Author Ken Trethewey relates the history of lighthouses along the Atlantic coast, highlighting both their common past but also the characteristics specific to each country or region. The book is completed by a detailed guide giving technical descriptions of all the lighthouses photographed, maps locating the lighthouses, and a brief history of each light.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 936 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Archives
ISBN : UCBK:C044921188
Author : United States. National Archives and Records Administration. Mid Atlantic Region
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 72 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Middle Atlantic States
ISBN : PSU:000031111935