Southeastern Lighthouses: Outer Banks to Cape Florida (Lighthouses (Chelsea House)) - Hardcover

Roberts, Bruce; Jones, Ray

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0791054837 ISBN 13: 9780791054833

Publisher: Chelsea House Publications, 2000

Synopsis

Provides historical background and descriptive information on some of the most significant lighthouses along the Atlantic coast from North Carolina to Florida.

About this title

From the Back Cover

Standing guard over the long, graceful coastline that stretches between the North Carolina Outer Banks and the southern tip of Florida are stone, brick, concrete, and metal sentinels - stately lighthouses whose tall towers serve as daymarks and whose intense beacons provide guidance at night to the ships of all sizes that ply these shores for pleasure and profit. Ship-killing shoals, shallows, and hurricanes lie in wait to thwart the missions of these vessels and have given the surf off these shores the nickname 'the Graveyard of the Atlantic.' Southeastern Lighthouses tells the fascinating stories of this region's most important and historic lighthouses and the wrecks and heroes they have seen. Bruce Roberts is a freelance photographer whose work has appeared in Life, Sports Illustrated, and Time-Life Books. He was director of photography at Southern living magazine. Ray Jones has served as editor for Time-Life Books, founding editor of Albuquerque Living magazine, senior editor and writing coach at Southern Living magazine, and publisher of Country Roads Press.

Edition details

• Publisher: Chelsea House Publications
• Publication date: 2000
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0791054837
• ISBN 13: 9780791054833
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 92