America's Lighthouses : An Illustrated History

America's Lighthouses : An Illustrated History

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Delightfully written, profusely illustrated fact-filled survey of American lighthouses since 1716. Includes over 200 stations located along coastal and inland waterways of the continental U.S.—East, Gulf, and West coasts, Great Lakes, Hawaii, Alaska, Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, and the Mississippi and St. Lawrence Rivers. In addition to explaining the development of the lighthouse from the Pharos of Alexandria to the 350,000 candlepower lights of today, the author discusses designs, lenses, and fuels, the duties and way of life of the lighthouse keepers (rapidly giving way to automation), and such other aids to navigation as fog signals, buoys, river lights, and lightships.

America's Lighthouses: An Illustrated History,Francis Ross Holland,Dover Publications,048625576X,Architecture,History,History: American,Lighthouses,Ships & Shipbuilding - History,U.S. Architecture - General,United States,Transportation / Ships & Shipbuilding / History,Travel & holiday guides,USA

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