For more than 250 years after the first lighthouse was built on Cape Cod, Nantucket & Martha‘s Vineyard, no book had ever been written specifically about the beacons along this shoreline. During that period, more than 40 lighthouse guided mariners through these treacherous waters, and they comprised a concentration of beacons greater than any other in the entire world. America’s Landfall was the first book to chronicle these particular lights that became not only a symbol for this region, but also a display of our nation’s progress. Illustrated with more than 75 historic photographs and nautical charts, this guide recounts just how it was that these beacons came to be and why it is that the few which remain are worth preserving.
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Donald W. Davidson is a popular maritime historian who lives and writes on Cape Cod.
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EVERYONE LOVES A LIGHTHOUSE, for few other sights on the face of this earth can kindle the spark of imagination as much as does the flash from afar of a beacon through the night. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
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Cape Cod, Buzzards Bay, Transportation Appendix, Martha's Vineyard, Minots Ledge, Great Point, New England, Coast Guard, New Bedford, Vineyard Sound, Nantucket Sound, Sankaty Head, United States, Bass River, Great Outer Beach, High Lands, Point Allerton, Race Point, Boston Harbor, Boston Light, Hyannis Harbor, Milestone Road, Polpis Road, Vineyard Haven, Chatham Harbor New!
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EVERYONE LOVES A LIGHTHOUSE, for few other sights on the face of this earth can kindle the spark of imagination as much as does the flash from afar of a beacon through the night. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
fifth auditor, outer beach, lighthouse stations, lantern room Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Cape Cod, Buzzards Bay, Transportation Appendix, Martha's Vineyard, Minots Ledge, Great Point, New England, Coast Guard, New Bedford, Vineyard Sound, Nantucket Sound, Sankaty Head, United States, Bass River, Great Outer Beach, High Lands, Point Allerton, Race Point, Boston Harbor, Boston Light, Hyannis Harbor, Milestone Road, Polpis Road, Vineyard Haven, Chatham Harbor New!
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