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The Lighthouse Stevensons (Paperback)
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The Lighthouse Stevensons (Paperback)
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List price R288
Loot Price R209
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You Save R79 (27%)
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An exciting new edition of Bella Bathurst's epic story of Robert
Louis Stevenson's ancestors and the building of the Scottish
coastal lighthouses against impossible odds. 'Whenever I smell salt
water, I know that I am not far from one of the works of my
ancestors,' wrote Robert Louis Stevenson in 1880. 'When the lights
come out at sundown along the shores of Scotland, I am proud to
think they burn more brightly for the genius of my father!' Robert
Louis Stevenson was the most famous of the Stevensons, but not by
any means the most productive. The Lighthouse Stevensons, all four
generations of them, built every lighthouse round Scotland, were
responsible for a slew of inventions in both construction and
optics, and achieved feats of engineering in conditions that would
be forbidding even today. The same driven energy which Robert Louis
Stevenson put into writing, his ancestors put into lighting the
darkness of the seas. The Lighthouse Stevensons is a story of high
endeavour, beautifully told; indeed, this is one of the most
celebrated works of historical biography in recent memory.
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