21st Century Complete Guide to Lighthouses, Light Stations and Historic Ships: National Park Service, Navy, and Coast Guard Inventories and Images [CD-ROM]

U.S. Government (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: February 18, 2002

This electronic book on CD-ROM presents the complete story of America's marvelous lighthouses, light stations, light ships, and lighthouse lenses. Additional material is also provided on historic ships in the United States. Color images and complete inventories from the National Park Service, Navy, and U.S. Coast Guard constitute the core of this beautiful collection, which encompasses several thousand pages. Topics covered include lighthouse preservation, historically famous lighthouses, light ships and lenses.

In addition to their incorporation into the documents on the CD, over 400 great photographs are provided as individual .jpg files for your use. This book-on-a-disc makes a superb reference work for history enthusiasts, libraries, researchers, schools, students, and home reference! It is designed to provide a convenient user-friendly general reference work, utilizing the benefits of the Adobe Acrobat format to uniformly present thousands of pages that can be rapidly reviewed or printed without untold hours of tedious searching and downloading. Vast archives of important government information that might otherwise remain inaccessible are available for instant review. The documents are reproduced using Adobe Acrobat PDF software - allowing direct viewing on Windows and Apple Macintosh systems. Reader software is included on the CD.

Product Details

• CD-ROM: 3977 pages
• Publisher: Progressive Management; 1 edition (February 18, 2002)
• ISBN-10: 193182827X
• ISBN-13: 978-1931828277
• Product Dimensions: 5.6 x 5 x 0.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.4 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #4,514,530 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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3.0 out of 5 stars 21st Century Complete Guide to Lighthouses, Light Stations.., January 6, 2003

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This review is from: 21st Century Complete Guide to Lighthouses, Light Stations and Historic Ships: National Park Service, Navy, and Coast Guard Inventories and Images (CD-ROM)

I was hoping this was going to be a CD version of the book that the National Park Service put out by Candice Clifford, but with more material about each lighthouse. I was sadly disappointed. The listings are not nearly complete as the title says it is. I'm sorry but even though Rhode Island is small it does have more than one lighthouse. The photo section has many photos, but the listings are so cryptic that unless you know the particular lighthouse and its location you may not be able to interpret which one you are looking at. The images are JPEG's which don't allow for much detail also. From the compilers point of view I can understand not wanting to give out higher quality images for free though. Obviously there was a large effort put into compiling what was done. But it doesn't compare even closely with Candice Clifford's book. A book that I take everywhere I go to photograph lighthouses. I'm even thinking of getting another one just in case I loose the first.