Light Houses Galore

The mystic nature of a lighthouse almost requires embodiment beyond its structure. And what could be more romantic and chilling than a haunting? Lighthouse Ghosts contains 13 stories of bona fide apparitions standing watch over Americas shores that will satisfy your craving for the supernatural...

Lighthouses are increasingly endangered by modernization and abandonment. Simple steel skeletons are replacing the picturesque, conical towers, squat screwpiles and Cape Cod styles so much a part of America's maritime history...

This fall, PBS will celebrate America's rich lighthouse heritage with a much anticipated six-part travel documentary series. This companion volume parallels the TV series by exploring six distinct coastal regions and visiting the extraordinary lighthouses that serve them...

Just south of Miami Beach lies the southernmost sand barrier island of the continental United States--Key Biscayne. Long the symbol of an idyllic, barefoot, island lifestyle, this swirl of sand, five miles long by a mile and a half wide, is the subject of this lucid history, which begins 4,000 years ago and continues through its discovery of Ponce de Leon, its use as a military and lighthouse reservation, the Seminole Wars, shipwreck salvaging, and its present function as public parkland and residential and high-rise condominium village...

This book is suitable for ages 9 to 12 years. With fun, hands-on activities, dramatic play, and creative thinking, children will discover the wonder of lighthouses and the geography that made lighthouses necessary, as well as the science that improved the strength of the light itself...

Blink-flash, flash. Swirl around, twirl around. The long, narrow beam Slices the night. Who sees the light? You can't imagine who can see the light from the lighthouses around the country in this gorgeous counting book...