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10 of 11 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
A Must for Lighthouse Aficionados!
This is a first rate book describing the lighthouses of this region. Each lighthouse is given a chapter with good descriptions of the station and it's history. There is also an very good explanation of fresnel lenses and modern optics which lighthouses use. I highly recommend it for any one who loves lighthouses.
Published on May 31, 2000 by Michael J. Seewald
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2.0 out of 5 stars
Be careful
Hamilton spent less than three years researching the 39 lighthouses in this book. If you have ever researched any historical site, you'll know that he could not have been very thorough. His research skills are suspect (as he continues to display in articles for Long Island Boating World), and he does not delineate between fact and folklore at times. He even lists the...
Published on December 1, 2004 by Robert G. Muller
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10 of 11 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
A Must for Lighthouse Aficionados!,
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This review is from: Lights & Legends (Paperback)
This is a first rate book describing the lighthouses of this region. Each lighthouse is given a chapter with good descriptions of the station and it's history. There is also an very good explanation of fresnel lenses and modern optics which lighthouses use. I highly recommend it for any one who loves lighthouses.
2.0 out of 5 stars
Be careful,
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This review is from: Lights & Legends (Paperback)
Hamilton spent less than three years researching the 39 lighthouses in this book. If you have ever researched any historical site, you'll know that he could not have been very thorough. His research skills are suspect (as he continues to display in articles for Long Island Boating World), and he does not delineate between fact and folklore at times. He even lists the Latimer Reef Lighthouse as being in Connecticut (it is a New York light). There are plenty more errors, but I won't bore you with them.
I wouldn't recommend this book to serious lighthouse fans. It's not up-to-date (1987 publication date - much has changed since then) and the information inside cannot be taken as absolute. |
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Lights & Legends by Harlon Hamilton (Paperback - November 5, 2006)
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