Pre-Owned The World's Greatest Lighthouses (Hardcover) 8854406139 9788854406131

Escape into these spectacular colour photographs of more than 50 of the world's most beautiful lighthouses. They hail from North American shores such as the Outer Banks, Nova Scotia, Bermuda, and the California and Oregon coasts, as well as throughout the Mediterranean, the North Sea, the South Pacific, Asian waters, and the Caribbean. This book is dedicated to the lighthouses of history, legends, films, novels, and personal reveries. Spectacular Atlantic storms rage just outside the cosy interiors, which often contain the most unusual furniture. The text covers the individual characteristics, location, and history of these extraordinary coastal monuments, together with their technical development and the complex psychology of the modern-day hermits who live in them. This book is for all who love the seacoast and its architecture. AUTHOR: Annamaria "Lilla" Mariotti lives and works near Genoa, Italy. A frequent writer for the American Lighthouse Digest and other magazines, she has lectured frequently in Italy and the United States, promoting her CD-ROM "The Lighthouse, a Light in Time and History." She is currently writing a novel set among the lighthouses and fishermen of the North Atlantic. SELLING POINTS: Features over 50 of the world's most fabled lighthouses and the stories behind them Author is one of the world's leading experts Reveals their architectural splendour, cosy interiors with strange furniture and complex psychology of the keepers ILLUSTRATIONS: 157 colour photographs