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Seashaken Houses - A Lighthouse History from Eddystone to Fastnet (Paperback) Loot Price: R270
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Seashaken Houses - A Lighthouse History from Eddystone to Fastnet (Paperback): Tom Nancollas

Seashaken Houses - A Lighthouse History from Eddystone to Fastnet (Paperback)

Tom Nancollas

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'A thrilling celebration of lighthouses' i newspaper An enthralling history of Britain's rock lighthouses, and the people who built and inhabited them Lighthouses are enduring monuments to our relationship with the sea. They encapsulate a romantic vision of solitary homes amongst the waves, but their original purpose was much more noble, conceived as navigational gifts for the safety of all. Still today, we depend upon their guiding lights for the safe passage of ships. Nowhere is this truer than in the rock lighthouses of Great Britain and Ireland: twenty towers built between 1811 and 1904, so-called because they were constructed on desolate, slippery rock formations in the middle of the sea, rising, mirage-like, straight out of the waves, with lights shining at the their summits. Seashaken Houses is a lyrical exploration of these magnificent, isolated sentinels, the ingenuity of those who conceived them, the people who risked their lives building and rebuilding them, those that inhabited their circular rooms, and the ways in which we value emblems of our history in a changing world.

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Imprint: Penguin Books
Country of origin: United Kingdom
Release date: July 2019
Authors: Tom Nancollas
Dimensions: 198 x 129 x 16mm (L x W x T)
Format: Paperback - B-format
Pages: 256
ISBN-13: 978-1-84614-938-2
Categories: Books > Arts & Architecture > History of art / art & design styles > General
Books > Arts & Architecture > Architecture > Public buildings: civic, commercial, industrial, etc > General
Books > Humanities > History > History of specific subjects > Social & cultural history
Books > Humanities > History > History of specific subjects > Maritime history
Books > History > History of specific subjects > Maritime history
Books > History > History of specific subjects > Social & cultural history
LSN: 1-84614-938-X
Barcode: 9781846149382

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