Lighthouses of New England

by Jon Marcus

Book Overview

This is both an exciting history and a tour guide, illustrating the fascinating development of the lighthouses of this region -- with bonus coverage of the Long Island lighthouses. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0896584844
• ISBN13: 9780896584846
• Release Date: May 2001
• Publisher: Voyageur Press (MN)
• Length: 160 Pages
• Weight: 2.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 8.5" x 11.3"

Customer Reviews

Good overview of US lighthouse history

Although this book has short paragraphs discussing individual lighthouses, its strength is in its strong overview of general US lighthouse history with an emphasis on New England. Contains many good quality color photographs. I would recommend this book. My only criticism is that I want more indepth information about specific lights and locating that information requires considerable page flipping within this volume. For more detailed information about specific lights see the editions by Snow and D'Entremont.

Not just stunning pictures, but a great read, too

When I received this book as a gift I expected that it would be another lovely book of New England photos to keep on the guest room bookshelf. I was pleasantly surprised to find myself caught up instead in the beautifully-written text. Who knew there were so many intriguing myths, legends, historical facts, and entertaining anecdotes about the people who built, populated, and even haunt New England lighthouses? This book turned out to be a terrific history lesson and an all-around great read.

Great writing, great photos!

This book is not only very informative, but full of wonderful photographs. It is an interesting read and lovely to look at.