The Golden Age of American Lighthouses: A Nostalgic Look at U.S. Lights from 1850 to 1939

by Tim Harrison and Ray Jones

Rare archival photography and insightful commentary transport readers back in time to the most interesting and important era in the history of American light towers. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0762712767
• ISBN13: 9780762712762
• Release Date: January 2002
• Publisher: Globe Pequot Press
• Length: 176 Pages
• Weight: 1.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 8.5" x 11.0"

Customer Reviews

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Nice Entry Into Lighthouse History

Having visited some this summer, asked at a lighthouse museum for book to enter lighthouse past, and this one was suggested. What really helps are the nice large photos and verbage about what a keeper did and the phasing of them out by modern technology and resotration and preservation efforts for others.

best lighthouse book ever written

This is the best lighthouse book I have ever read. It's jammed packed with information you would never find in any other lighthouse book. Strange and unusal tales, like the man who built many of our lighthouses and missed becoming presient by a matter of hours, or the man who ran our lighthouse service for 32 years is also the same man who saved the Declration of Independence. This is one lighthouse book you will want to have