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Binding: PaperbackDewey Decimal Number: 386.8550977 EAN: 9780932212993 ISBN: 0932212999 Label: Avery Color Studios Manufacturer: Avery Color Studios Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 200 Publication Date: July 01, 1998 Publisher: Avery Color Studios Studio: Avery Color Studios Sales Rank: 1272121 Related Items:
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 Rating: - AN ADVENTURE AND A TRIBUTEGreat Lakes lighthouse duty was a unique experience, offering an uncommon perspective on lake traffic, fickle weather conditions, and even into one's own soul. In many instances, it was a desolate existence that some light keepers compared to imprisonment. The work was nonstop, as structures were constantly eroded by the raw elements of a Great Lakes shoreline--the wind, rain, and snow. Just keeping enough food and supplies--just surviving--was not guaranteed, as foul weather could force a lighthouse ... Read More Rating: - Well-researched and entertainingThis book is thoroughly enjoyable. Frederick Stonehouse has obviously spent a great many hours researching the lighthouses, lightships, keeps and wrecks detailed in this book. He also has a great deal of affection for his subject. The book contains an encapsulated history of the lighthouse service at the beginning, which sets the historicval context of the tales that follow. These range from factual accounts from logs to anecdotal stories from survivors' relatives, taking in a lighthouse hymn on the ... Read More Browse for similar items by category:
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