The story
of the lighthouse is as fascinating and diverse as the design of the
buildings themselves. Roman and medieval attempts to help seafarers
navigate, using beacons and other seamarks, preceded elegant
Georgian lights, followed in the 19th Century by huge rock-based
lighthouses such as Eddystone, which were great feats of Victorian
civil engineering. This book tells the story of their construction,
often in desperately dangerous and stormy conditions, looks at the
lives of their keepers, and considers how automation has changed the
modern lighthouse. A gazateer gives brief details of over 160 lights
around the coasts of Great Britain and Ireland. |
