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Scottish Lighthouse Pioneers - Travels with the Stevensons in Orkney and Shetland (Paperback)
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Scottish Lighthouse Pioneers - Travels with the Stevensons in Orkney and Shetland (Paperback)
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In the 19th century, the Stevenson engineers pioneered marvelous
lighthouses around the coasts of Scotland - lighthouses which
inspire with their architectural elegance, and speak of compassion
for sailors and fishermen risking their lives in these notoriously
dangerous waters. But what was it actually like to be a Scottish
lighthouse engineer, and how did the professional activities
interact with social and economic conditions in Scotland at the
time? How did the Northern Lighthouse Board's Engineer (almost
invariably a Stevenson) cope with weeks aboard a small lighthouse
vessel, traveling around the rugged Scottish coastline on dangerous
tours of inspection and interacting with local people in some of
the remotest regions of Europe? The author reveals the fascinating
story of the Stevensons as family members as well as engineers -
brilliant yet fallible, tough yet vulnerable, with private lives
that are little known, even to lighthouse enthusiasts.It sets their
work in a historical and social context, drawing heavily on
eye-witness accounts by two of Scotland's most celebrated literary
sons: Walter Scott, internationally famous poet and member of the
Edinburgh establishment; and Robert Louis Stevenson, young family
member and disenchanted engineering apprentice desperate to become
an author. The reader is taken to the Orkney and Shetland Islands
with descriptions of the chain of Stevenson lighthouses that
illuminate a vital shipping route between the North Sea, Baltic,
and North Atlantic. Finally we travel to Muckle Flugga, the
northernmost outpost of the British Isles and last link in the
chain, a vicious rock on which David and Thomas Stevenson dared to
build their 'impossible lighthouse'.
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