Legendary Lighthouses Of Britain
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Author | : Roger O'Reilly |
Publisher | : Watkins Media Limited |
Total Pages | : 652 |
Release | : 2024-04-09 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1786788128 |
Packed with legends, sea lore and exciting true-life tales, this is a highly giftable treasure trove of Britain's top 100 lighthouses, each one illustrated by award-winning artist Roger O'Reilly. This is a unique celebration of 100 of the most dramatic and storied lighthouses along the coasts of Britain. Illustrated with fantastic retro art by award-winning artist Roger O'Reilly, this guide to the sentinels that guard Britain's shores is aimed at walkers, art lovers, maritime and countryside enthusiasts, and anyone who just loves lighthouses!. From the Lizard in Cornwall to Muckle Flugga at the northern tip of the Shetlands, and out to the forbidding rock stations that lie offshore in the path of ferocious and unforgiving seas, Roger O'Reilly has selected the very best of Britain's lighthouses with all their sea legends, folklore and tales of ghosts, shipwrecks and endurance. Including: Souter on the Sunderland coast, reputed to be haunted by Grace Darling’s niece Isabella, who lived here in the late 1880s. Staff have reported spoons floating in mid-air, unexplained temperature drops, and even being clutched by unseen hands. Ardnamurchan in the far west of Scotland, so remote that its builders came down with scurvy, and fresh fruit and vegetables along with a doctor had to be shipped out to help them. Trinity Buoy Wharf – who knew there was a lighthouse in the heart of London? It's now home to the Longplayer, a continuous 1,000-year long piece of music that will run until 31st December 2999. Smalls, off the Pembrokeshire coast, where in 1801 one keeper died and the other went mad, waiting almost four months for rescue while his dead colleague, fastened to the outside rail because the corpse had started to decompose, stared through the window at him accusingly. Lundy South, occupied by Barbary pirates during the 1600s, and in the 18th century the base of Thomas Benson, one time MP for Barnstaple and Devon’s most notorious smuggler.
Author | : John Grant |
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Total Pages | : |
Release | : 2002 |
Genre | : Lighthouse keepers |
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Author | : John Grant |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2001-09 |
Genre | : Legendary lighthouses (Television program) |
ISBN | : 9780762709533 |
This lavishly illustrated volume celebrates America's treasured coastal beacons and explores the people, places and coasts they radiate from. Photos.
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Total Pages | : |
Release | : 1999 |
Genre | : Lighthouse keepers |
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Companion to the PBS series that explores the history, legends, lore and workings of lighthouses along American shorelines, and the places where they are located. Coverage includes: North Atlantic, South Atlantic, California, Maine, Western Great Lakes, Pacific Northwest, Hawaii, Alaska, Eastern Great Lakes, and Gulf of Mexico.
Author | : Samuel Willard Crompton |
Publisher | : Thunder Bay Press (CA) |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2000 |
Genre | : Lighthouses |
ISBN | : 9781571452245 |
"History, legend, lore, design, technology, romance."--Jacket.
Author | : Nicholas Leach |
Publisher | : History Press |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2018-10 |
Genre | : Lighthouses |
ISBN | : 9780750986977 |
Visually stunning and complete guide to all the lighthouses of England, Wales and the Channel Islands
Author | : Nic Compton |
Publisher | : Random House |
Total Pages | : 225 |
Release | : 2016-09-01 |
Genre | : Education |
ISBN | : 1473530288 |
The rhythmic lullaby of ‘North Utsire, South Utsire’ has been lulling the nation’s insomniacs to sleep for over 90 years. It has inspired songs, poetry and imaginations across the globe – as well as providing a very real service for the nation’s seafarers who might fall prey to storms and gales. It has inspired everyone from Seamus Heaney to Radiohead, and from Radio 4 announcers to the writers of Keeping Up Appearances. In 1995, a plan to move the late-night broadcast by just 12 minutes caused a national outcry and was ultimately scrapped. Published with Radio 4 and the Met Office, The Shipping Forecast is the official miscellany for seafarers and armchair travellers alike. It features fascinating facts alongside lyrics from Seamus Heaney, Carol Ann Duffy, Radiohead and more. From the places themselves – how they got their names, what’s happened there through the ages – to the poems and parodies that it’s inspired, this is a beautifully evocative tribute to one of Britain's – and Radio 4's – best-loved broadcasts.
Author | : Tony Denton |
Publisher | : Foxglove Publishing Limited |
Total Pages | : 96 |
Release | : 2011 |
Genre | : Lighthouses |
ISBN | : 9780956456038 |
Author | : Christopher P. Nicholson |
Publisher | : Dundurn |
Total Pages | : 210 |
Release | : 1995 |
Genre | : Architecture |
ISBN | : 9781870325417 |
When waves higher than the vessels that sail upon them smash against the half-submerged rocks at the extremities our coastline, the whole ocean becomes a raging foam which continues to claim the lives of unwary navigators. Man's struggle to build a permanent and durable structure such as a lighthouse on these sites is a story that cannot fail to stir the emotions of anyone who enjoys tales of endeavour, ingenuity and dogged determination. In this second edition of his book, Christopher Nicholson vividly describes the construction and history to the present day of some of the world's most famous lighthouses. Book jacket.
Author | : Theresa Levitt |
Publisher | : W. W. Norton & Company |
Total Pages | : 285 |
Release | : 2013-06-03 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 039306879X |
Describes the life of the man who invented a new lighthouse lens, capable of shining brighter, farther, and more efficiently than existing light sources, and his fight against the scientific elite, his poor health, and the limits of his era's technology.