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Seashaken Houses: A Lighthouse History from Eddystone to Fastnet

Categorie	Engels
Boeknummer	#421203-YE7
Titel	Seashaken Houses: A Lighthouse History from Eddystone to Fastnet
Auteur	Nancollas, Tom
Boektype	Gebonden hardcover met stofomslag
Uitgeverij	London : Particular Books
Jaar van uitgave	2018
ISBN10	1846149371
ISBN13	9781846149375
Taal	Engels
Beschrijving	Original grey boards, dust jacket, some illustrations (including photographs) in b/w, 8vo.
Samenvatting	Lighthouses are striking totems of our relationship to the sea. For many, they encapsulate a romantic vision of solitary homes amongst the waves, but their original purpose was much more utilitarian than that. Today we still 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 which form a ring of twenty towers built between 1811 and 1904, so-called because they were constructed on desolate rock formations in the middle of the sea, and made of granite to withstand the power of its waves. Seashaken Houses is a lyrical exploration of these singular towers, 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... (Lees verder) our history in a changing world.
Pagina's	240
Conditie	Goed
Prijs	€ 30,00

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