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ISBNs | 978-5-389-20120-0 |
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The weight | 0,549 kg |
Size | 170 × 240 mm |
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On this unusual journey to the most remote lighthouses on the planet, you will get acquainted not only with the peculiarities of their architecture, internal structure and technical equipment, but also with many fascinating stories related to the construction of lighthouses and their caretakers, shipwrecks and mystical incidents. This is a story about a blind lighthouse keeper beyond 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 high seas… These stories combine 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 large-scale plans indicating the exact coordinates of the lighthouses and their technical characteristics - a diagram of each lighthouse is given in the section, its exact coordinates and parameters of the light signal, the engineer is named, the time of construction and commissioning, it is indicated whether the lighthouse is functioning now 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 information.