This fall, PBS will celebrate America's rich lighthouse heritage with a much anticipated six-part travel documentary series. This companion volume parallels the TV series by exploring six distinct coastal regions and visiting the extraordinary lighthouses that serve them. 125 color photos & 6 maps.
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Whether it's for their beauty, romance, or usefulness - or a combination of all three - most of us would admit to a fascination with lighthouses. Paralleling the highly-praised PBS travel documentary series Legendary Lighthouses, this companion book celebrates America's treasured coastal beacons and explores the nature of our love for them. Lavishly illustrated with color photographs, many of them taken during the filming of the television series, this book is a modern tribute not only to our rich lighthouse heritage, but also to the ideals and impulses that lighthouses continue to embody and inspire.
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A Lighthouse Lover's Must Have,
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This review is from: Legendary Lighthouses (Paperback)
I am an avid collector and visitor of lighthouses and I think this book is amazing!! The illistrations are spectacular!!! And the stories about the history of each lighthouse are very enlightening!! Every lighthouse collector and lover must have this book!!
15 of 15 people found the following review helpful:
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This is one of the best books on lighthouses.,
This review is from: Legendary Lighthouses (Paperback)
It is very informative and provides much detail about all the lighthouses. There are numerous pictures and they are absolutely great. This book also gives you very good directions on how to travel to each of the lighthouses some of which are very remote. I would highly recommend this book to anyone.
11 of 11 people found the following review helpful:
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Visual and Reading Pleasure,
By Bob Koch (Norcross, Georgia) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Legendary Lighthouses (Paperback)
I picked up this book without having seen the companion PBS series, but now I'd really like to see it. The book presents a very nice story for each lighthouse visited, discussing more of the people stories that go along with the history of the houses themselves. A really nice find for lighthouse fans.
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lighthouse officials, earliest lighthouses, classical lens, lantern room, light station, navigational lights, little lighthouse, many lighthouses, beacon shining, fog signal, light keepers, red sector Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Coast Guard, Lighthouse Service, Lake Superior, Cape Cod, San Francisco, Great Lakes, Cape Disappointment, Key West, North Head, Outer Banks, Cape Hatteras, New York, Big Sur, Cape Flattery, Civil War, Point Sur, Puget Sound, Sandy Hook, United States, Rock of Ages, West Quoddy Head, Point Loma, Point Reyes, Fire Island, George Reef New!
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lighthouse officials, earliest lighthouses, classical lens, lantern room, light station, navigational lights, little lighthouse, many lighthouses, beacon shining, fog signal, light keepers, red sector Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Coast Guard, Lighthouse Service, Lake Superior, Cape Cod, San Francisco, Great Lakes, Cape Disappointment, Key West, North Head, Outer Banks, Cape Hatteras, New York, Big Sur, Cape Flattery, Civil War, Point Sur, Puget Sound, Sandy Hook, United States, Rock of Ages, West Quoddy Head, Point Loma, Point Reyes, Fire Island, George Reef New!
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- Lighthouses of the Mid-Atlantic Coast (Pictorial Discovery Guide) by Elinor Dewire in Back Matter
- Virginia, Lighthouses and Lifesaving Stations (VA) (Images of America) by Patrick Evans-Hylton in Back Matter
- Window to the Sea: Behind the Scenes at America's Great Public Aquariums by John Grant in Back Matter
- Lighthouses of the South (Pictorial Discovery Guide) by Elinor De Wire in Back Matter
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