By Ray Jones,Bruce Roberts,Cheryl Shelton-Roberts
For greater than centuries, lighthouses have helped sailors locate their manner via treacherous waters, guiding them domestic or taking them correctly via passages on their solution to adventure. These old towers and homes shape a sparkling chain of lighting alongside our coasts, a reminder of the past echoing with event and secret, a trap for tourists trying to find a glimpse right into a romantic prior.
Completely revised and updated, American Lighthouses bargains greater than just a journey of 450 attractive and historical navigational beacons dotting the coasts and lakes of the U.S.. This totally illustrated, specific instruction manual information their heritage and structure and offers complete details on traveling or viewing them. integrated are many endangered lighting, threatened by means of erosion or loss of investment, in addition to “ghost lights,” that are not status.
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