The Around the World Atlas of Lighthouses: From Architecture and Engineering to Centuries of Mystery and Legend
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The Around the World Atlas of Lighthouses: From Architecture and Engineering to Centuries of Mystery and Legend
14.99 €
In this unusual journey to the most remote lighthouses on the planet you will get acquainted not only with the features of their architecture, internal structure and technical equipment, but also with many fascinating stories connected with the construction of lighthouses and their keepers, with shipwrecks and mystical incidents. 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 certain warning on a typewriter, about a strange man who preferred to hide from everyone in a tower in the open sea.... In these stories converge the motifs 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, nautical maps and scale plans with 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, the name of the engineer, the time of construction and commissioning, whether the lighthouse is now functioning or abandoned, the height of its tower, the height of the fire above sea level, the range of visibility of the fire, as well as many other interesting information.
The text is accompanied by magnificent illustrations, nautical maps and scale plans with 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, the name of the engineer, the time of construction and commissioning, whether the lighthouse is now functioning or abandoned, the height of its tower, the height of the fire above sea level, the range of visibility of the fire, as well as many other interesting information.
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