The Lighthouse Stevensons - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Lighthouse Stevensons write by Bella Bathurst. This book was released on 2005. The Lighthouse Stevensons available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Bella Bathurst tells the story of how Robert Louis Stevenson's ancestors built the network of lighthouses around the coast of Scotland. The family built all of the Scottish lighthouses, the last one of which became automated in 1998.
The Lighthouse Stevensons
The Lighthouse Stevensons - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Lighthouse Stevensons write by Bella Bathurst. This book was released on 2011-06-28. The Lighthouse Stevensons available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. For centuries the seas around Scotland were notorious for shipwrecks. Mariners' only aids were skill, luck, and single coal-fire light on the east coast, which was usually extinguished by rain. In 1786 the Northern Lighthouse Trust was established, with Robert Stevenson appointed as chief engineer a few years later. In this engrossing book, Bella Bathhurst reveals that the Stevensons not only supervised the construction of the lighthouses under often desperate conditions but also perfected a design of precisely chiseled interlocking granite blocks that would withstand the enormous waves that batter these stone pillars. The same Stevensons also developed the lamps and lenses of the lights themselves, which "sent a gleam across the wave" and prevented countless ships from being lost at sea. While it is the writing of Robert Louis Stevenson that brought fame to the family name, this mesmerizing account shows how his extraordinary ancestors changed the shape of the Scotland coast against incredible odds and with remarkable technical ingenuity.
The Lighthouse Stevensons
The Lighthouse Stevensons - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Lighthouse Stevensons write by Bella Bathurst. This book was released on 1999. The Lighthouse Stevensons available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Whenever I smell salt water, I know that I am not far from one of the works of my ancestors wrote Robert Louis Stevenson in 1880. When the lights come out at sundown along the shores of Scotland, I am proud to think they burn more brightly for the genius of my father
Sentinels of the Sea
Sentinels of the Sea - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Sentinels of the Sea write by R. G. Grant. This book was released on 2018. Sentinels of the Sea available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Lighthouses have always unsettled and attracted in equal measure, highlighting the triumphs and failures in humanity's battle with the forces of nature. Taking as its heroes the lighthouses themselves, Sentinels of the Sea describes the engineering genius that allowed their construction on even the smallest of rock outcrops and the innovations that made the lights so powerful and reliable. Intricate, elegant architectural plans and elevations, and evocative period drawings and photographs showcase the innovative designs and technologies behind fifty historic lighthouses built around the world from the 17th to the 20th century. R.G. Grant's engaging and authoritative text chronicles the incredible feats of engineering and endurance that brought these iconic, isolated towers into being, the advances in lens technology that made the lights so effective, and the everyday routines of the lighthouse keepers and the heroic rescues that some performed. Packed with extraordinary stories of human endeavour, desperate shipwrecks, builders defying the elements and heroic sea rescues, the book also reveals the isolation and vulnerability of the dedicated lighthouse keepers.
The Wreckers
The Wreckers - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Wreckers write by Henry Bennet Brewster. This book was released on 1909. The Wreckers available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
