Light Houses Galore

Few things are more hauntingly beautiful than the sight of a lighthouse, misted in fog, and rooted in a chalky cliff or jagged outcropping. Lighthouses date back to the time of Homer's Odyssey, and this elegiac book sings their hymn in beautiful photography and poetically expressed history...

This is an inspiring collection of 50 high-quality beautiful color images of taken by a series of today's top talented professional photographers.

The latest book in our lighthouses series features 48 exceptional lights of the St. Lawrence River, from the charming Thousand Islands to the breathtaking Gulf of St. Lawrence. In Sentinels in the Stream, two of North America's top landscape photographers join forces to capture the rugged beauty of the river and its lighthouses, on the shores, shoals and islands of upstate New York and Ontario and Quebec ...

Celebrate the history and diversity of this country, as represented by its vast architectural and scenic treasures. More than 90 spectacular photographs provide a visual tour of the world's most picturesque lighthouses.

"The rapid development of ocean navigation and deep-sea fishing in the nineteenth century led to a dramatic rise in shipwrecks. Tens of thousands of sailors disappeared over the course of the century. The great nations that border the North Atlantic found a technological answer to this human disaster: they developed a spectacular network of lighthouses along their coastlines...

The safety of the countless people depends on lighthouses. These sentinels from California to British Columbia are pictured and discussed historically in great detail by author Jim Gibbs. Dramatic vintage and color photos of stark coastal landscapes and many unavoidable shipwrecks are presented as part of the lighthouse story where human courage links all events...

Lighthouses have played an important role on Ireland's extensive and dramatic coastline since the fifth century, lighting the way for many a cargo and passenger ship while ensuring that those who made their living on the sea made it home safely...

The Photographers Guide To Great Lakes Lighthouses is a new concept in ""how to"" books for photographers. The book will be of interest to those who enjoy beautiful photos of lighthouses and instructional to those photographing lighthouses...