Guide to Florida Lighthouses [Paperback]

Elinor De Wire (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: January 5, 2000

•Revised and updated from previous edition with new photos of renovated lighthouses •Florida’s lighthouses guide shipping south from the St. Marys River to the tip of the Keys, then north to Pensacola Bay •Some of Florida’s oldest and most historic structures, with diverse styles of architecture and daymark designs •See the black-and-white bands of the St. Augustine Lighthouse and the spider-legged iron structures along the Florida Reef

Product Details

• Paperback: 96 pages
• Publisher: Pineapple Press; 2nd ed. edition (January 5, 2000)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1561642169
• ISBN-13: 978-1561642168
• Product Dimensions: 11.1 x 8.5 x 0.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,449,002 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Elinor DeWire has been researching, photographing, and writing about lighthouses since 1972. She has visited more than eight hundred sentinels in the United States, Canada, the Caribbean, Europe, and Australia and is the author of fifteen books and more than 250 articles on the subject. Former Coast Guard historian, Dr. Robert Scheina, calls her "America's most prolific lighthouse author and a driving force behind the recent upsurge in interest in preserving lighthouses and the history and nostalgia surrounding them." DeWire has been honored for her work by the U.S. Lighthouse Society, the American Lighthouse Foundation, the U.S. Coast Guard, and the National League of American Pen Women. Two of her books have won the coveted Ben Franklin Award and the Coast Guard Book Award. DeWire also has written three books on amateur astronomy. She lives in the Puget Sound area of Washington and teaches at Olympic College.

Lighthouse Books by Elinor DeWire:

Guide to Florida Lighthouses
Guardians of the Lights: Stories of U.S. Lighthouse Keepers
The Lighthouse Keeper's Scrapbook
The Lightkeepers' Menagerie: Stories of Animals at Lighthouses
Lighthouses: Sentinels of the American Coast
Lighthouses of the Mid-Atlantic
Lighthouses of the South
Lighthouse Victuals & Verse
The Lighthouse Almanac
Sentries along the Shore
Field Guide to the Lighthouses of the New England Coast
The Lighthouses of Greece
The Lighthouse Activity Book for Kids
Florida Lighthouses for Kids
The DeWire Guide to Lighthouses of California, Oregon, & Washington

Astronomy/Sky Books:

Activities for Young Astronomers
Reach for the Sky
The Florida Night

Author Website:

www.ElinorDeWire.com

Customer Reviews

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3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars A fairly good lighthouse guide, August 8, 2000

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This review is from: Guide to Florida Lighthouses (Paperback)

Elinor De Wire's "Guide to Florida Lighthouses" contains all the information you need for a sightseeing trip of the beacons of the Gator state. It has some good pictures, features a couple of pages of information about each one as well as directions for how to get there.