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Women have a long history of keeping the lights burning, from
tending ancient altar flames or bonfires to modern-day lighthouse
keeping. Yet most of their stories are little-known. Guiding Lights
includes true stories from around the world, chronicling the lives
of the extraordinary women who mind the world's storm-battered
towers. From Hannah Sutton and her partner Grant, the two
caretakers living alone on Tasmania's wild Maatsuyker Island, to
Karen Zacharuk, the keeper in charge of Cape Beale on Canada's
Vancouver Island, where bears, cougars and wolves roam, the lives
of lighthouse women are not for the faint of heart. Stunning
photographs from throughout history accompany accounts of the
dramatic torching of Puysegur Point, one of NZ's most inhospitable
lighthouses; 'haunted' lighthouses in across the US and their
tragic tales; lighthouse accidents and emergencies around the
world; and two of the world's most legendary lighthouse women: Ida
Lewis (US) and Grace Darling (UK), who risked their lives to save
others. The book also explores our dual perception of lighthouses:
are they comforting and romantic beacons symbolising hope and
trust, or storm-lashed and forbidding towers with echoes of lonely,
mad keepers? Whatever our perception, stories of women's courage
and dedication in minding the lights - then and now - continue to
capture our imagination and inspire.
Based on the true story of one of the longest-living and quietest
World War I survivors, The Tale of the Anzac Tortoise is an epic
tale of soldiers, nurses, sacrifice and kindness, when siblings
Matthew and Marama find themselves transported back in time to the
shores of Gallipoli through an encounter with a tortoise. The
original tortoise who inspired the story was plucked by a wounded
soldier from the battlefield and then gifted to a nurse, who
brought him home to New Zealand. That nurse was the
great-great-aunt of author Shona Riddell, and the tortoise remained
in their family for the next 80 years!
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