A Round-the-World Atlas of Lighthouses: From Architectural Designs and Technical Equipment to Age-Old Mysteries and Legends
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On this unusual journey to the most remote lighthouses on the planet, you will learn not only about the features of their architecture, internal structure and technical equipment, but also about many fascinating stories related to the construction of lighthouses and their keepers, shipwrecks and mystical events. This is a story about a blind lighthouse keeper in the Arctic Circle, about a fearless girl who came to the aid of sailors in distress, about the ghost of a midshipman who appears at the lighthouse every night and taps out a warning on a typewriter, about a strange man who preferred to hide from everyone in a tower on the open sea... These stories converge on the motives and creative horizons of Jules Verne, Edgar Allan Poe, Virginia Woolf, who spent her childhood in a lighthouse, Rudyard Kipling, Ray Bradbury and other great writers who sought to tell the world about loneliness, anxiety, courage and happiness.
The text is accompanied by magnificent illustrations, sea charts and scale plans indicating the exact coordinates of the lighthouses and their technical characteristics - a diagram of each lighthouse in section, its exact coordinates and parameters of the light signal are given, the engineer is named, the time of construction and commissioning, it is indicated whether the lighthouse is currently functioning or abandoned, what is the height of its tower, the height of the fire above sea level, the visibility range of the fire, and many other interesting details are also given.
The text is accompanied by magnificent illustrations, sea charts and scale plans indicating the exact coordinates of the lighthouses and their technical characteristics - a diagram of each lighthouse in section, its exact coordinates and parameters of the light signal are given, the engineer is named, the time of construction and commissioning, it is indicated whether the lighthouse is currently functioning or abandoned, what is the height of its tower, the height of the fire above sea level, the visibility range of the fire, and many other interesting details are also given.
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