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Lighting the Bay - Tales of Chesapeake Lighthouses (Hardcover, 1st ed)
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Lighting the Bay - Tales of Chesapeake Lighthouses (Hardcover, 1st ed)
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From the beginning, it was a struggle to light the Chesapeake. Its
soft, undulating bottom presented different problems from those
faced along the rocky coasts of New England. The bay's shores
shifted before the winds, tides, and hurricanes that plagued the
200-mile-long estuary, and so did the towers of the Chesapeake. On
land, erosion was the silent menace; on the water, it was ice. More
than a dozen Chesapeake lighthouses bowed and broke before the
pressure of thousands of tons of ice bearing down on them. In many
cases, the keepers barely escaped with their lives. Lighting the
Bay: Tales of Chesapeake Lighthouses documents the dramatic events
that surrounded the difficult job of lighting the bay and manning
the lighthouses. With more than 100 attractive color photographs
and an informative historical narrative, Pat Vojtech communicates
both facts and the human saga of life as it was on the bay's
lighthouses. From heroic rescues to untimely deaths, from the
routine of daily tasks to battles with ice, cold, injury, and
loneliness; Vojtech provides an intimate portrait of life on the
guiding lights of the Chesapeake.
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