Legendary Lighthouses (Paperback)

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Product Description

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.

From the Back Cover

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.

Product Details

• Paperback: 200 pages
• Publisher: Globe Pequot; 1st edition (September 1, 1998)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0762703253
• ISBN-13: 978-0762703258
• Product Dimensions: 10.8 x 8.4 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 10.4 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #622,564 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

Customer Reviews

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20 of 20 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A Lighthouse Lover's Must Have, April 9, 1999

By A Customer

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:

5.0 out of 5 stars This is one of the best books on lighthouses., October 21, 1999

By	William Lionburg (Lansing, IL USA) - See all my reviews

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:

5.0 out of 5 stars Visual and Reading Pleasure, January 13, 2000

By	Bob Koch (Norcross, Georgia) - See all my reviews

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.