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Brilliant beacons : a history of the American lighthouse Cover Image Book Book

Brilliant beacons : a history of the American lighthouse / Eric Jay Dolin.

Dolin, Eric Jay, (author.).

Record details

  • ISBN: 9780871406682 (hardcover)
  • Physical Description: 541 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), map, portraits ; 25 cm
  • Edition: First Edition.
  • Publisher: New York ; Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W.W. Norton & Company, [2016]

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note:
Colonial lights -- Casualties of war -- Lights of a new nation -- Economy above all -- Europeans take the lead -- The "rule of ignorant and incompetent men" -- Brighter lights -- "Everything being recklessly broken" -- From board to service -- Keepers and their lives -- Lighthouse heroes -- Marvels of engineering -- And construction -- Of birds and eggs -- A cruel wind -- The new keepers -- Epilogue -- Lighthouse organizations -- Lighthouse museums.

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Subject: Lighthouses > United States > History.
United States. Bureau of Light-Houses > History.
United States. Lighthouse Service > History.

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  • 1 of 1 copy available at GRPL.

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300 . ‡a541 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : ‡billustrations (some color), map, portraits ; ‡c25 cm
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