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Lost Lighthouses (Lighthouse Series)

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This is an attractive, well-written and thouroughly researched book that anyone interested in lighthouse history should have in their collection. Not another coffee table book with pretty pictures from the present day, this book features lighthouses that no longer exist. Besides being engrossing reading, it amounts to a plea for readers to help save the lighthouses we still have, especially those that are endangered for one reason or another.

This new volume to a classic provides stories and images of almost two hundred 'lost' beacons, gathering writings from before, after and during their demise and blending research with memoirs and accounts of the lighthouses and their history. A fine guide to lighthouse history emerges.

The photos are all B&W but that's due to the old photographs. Its a shame that so many of these lights have gone. Having visited 80 lighthouses I can appreciate just how unique they are.

The companion book to Endangered Lighthouses, this one is forced to rely on vintage photographs to show the subject at hand because said subject has usually been gone for longer than I've resided on this planet. An impressive job has been done of tracking down the information presented here, especially the photographs, several of which show the subject lighthouse in advanced states of decay, and several more which show the actual death of the subject lighthouse. A great book and a worthy addition to your lighthouse library.