Light Houses Galore

Profusely illustrated fact-filled survey of American lighthouses since 1716. Includes over 200 stations — East, Gulf, and West coasts, Great Lakes, Hawaii, Alaska, Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, and the Mississippi and St...

This superb, profusely illustrated survey by noted authority recounts the history of seamarks from antiquity to the early 19th century. Chronicling both the construction of the towers and the methods of illumination, the text offers a wealth of technical data in highly readable form, plus 261 black-and-white illustrations.

Forty drawings of Cape Hatteras, Montauk Point, Cape Canaveral, Quoddy Head, Point Reyes, and many other lighthouses. Captions.

Ready-to-color illustrations of 30 authentic sentinels by the sea include accurate depictions of the ancient Pharos light in Alexandria, Egypt (one of the Seven Wonders of the World); a 2,000-year-old Roman lighthouse in England; an early 18th century pillared construction in Riga, Latvia; and 27 other sturdy structures...

Full-color cards, capturing all the drama and romance of those seaside sentinels, depict the Sequin Light in Maine, Highland Light on Cape Cod, and 4 others.

This is a hand crafted, hand painted, polyresin ornament. It measures approx. 6.5" x 8.5"

Hephaestus Books represents a new publishing paradigm, allowing disparate content sources to be curated into cohesive, relevant, and informative books. To date, this content has been curated from Wikipedia articles and images under Creative Commons licensing, although as Hephaestus Books continues to increase in scope and dimension, more licensed and public domain content is being added...

Hephaestus Books represents a new publishing paradigm, allowing disparate content sources to be curated into cohesive, relevant, and informative books. To date, this content has been curated from Wikipedia articles and images under Creative Commons licensing, although as Hephaestus Books continues to increase in scope and dimension, more licensed and public domain content is being added...

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 24. Chapters: English Channel, Islands of the North Sea, Strait of Dover, Eddystone Lighthouse, Heligoland, Silverpit crater, Goodwin Sands, 1580 Dover Straits earthquake, Channel Fleet, Utsira, Norwegian trench, Inchcape, The Downs, Silver Pit, Hurd's Deep, Start Bay, Svinør...

Impressive paper replica, based on early 19th-century Dice Head Light Station in Maine, comes with 10"-high red-and-white octagonal tower, caretaker’s cozy white clapboard cottage and a single story passageway connecting two structures...