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Elinor De Wire has been writing about lighthouses and their keepers since 1972. During that time she found that hundreds of lighthouse animals wandered into her research notes and photo collection. This book is the story of all these cold-nosed, whiskered, wooly, hoofed, horned, slithery, buzzing, feathered, and finned keepers of the lights. Where else would a dog learn to ring a fogbell; a cat go swimming and catch a fish for its supper; or a parrot cuss the storm winds rattling its cage? Who other than a lightkeeper would swim a cow home, tame a baby seal, adopt an orphan alligator, send messages via carrier pigeons, or imagine mermaids coming to visit? The Lightkeepers' Menagerie gathers together animal stories from lighthouses all around the world, tales of happiness and sadness, courage and cowardice, tragedy and comedy, even absurdity. Sometimes, fur, feathers, and fins tell the best tales.
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Elinor De Wire is the author of many articles and books about lighthouses, including the Guide to Florida Lighthouses, Guardians of the Lights, Florida Lighthouses for Kids, Lighthouses of the South, and the Sentinels of the American Coast, Lighthouse Activity Book, Lighthouse Almanac. Ms. De Wire writes and lectures full-time and creates Kids on the Beam, a bi-monthly column for Lighthouse Digest. She lives in Washington with her husband and her cat, Lighthouse Kitty.
Elinor De Wire has been writing about lighthouses and their keepers since 1972. During that time she found that hundreds of lighthouse animals wandered into her research notes and photo collection. This book is the story of all these cold-nosed, whiskered, wooly, hoofed, horned, slithery, buzzing, feathered, and finned keepers of the lights. Where else would a dog learn to ring a fogbell; a cat go swimming and catch a fish for its supper; or a parrot cuss the storm winds rattling its cage? Who other than a lightkeeper would swim a cow home, tame a baby seal, adopt an orphan alligator, send messages via carrier pigeons, or imagine mermaids coming to visit? The Lightkeepers' Menagerie gathers together animal stories from lighthouses all around the world, tales of happiness and sadness, courage and cowardice, tragedy and comedy, even absurdity. Sometimes, fur, feathers, and fins tell the best tales.
About the Author
Elinor De Wire is the author of many articles and books about lighthouses, including the Guide to Florida Lighthouses, Guardians of the Lights, Florida Lighthouses for Kids, Lighthouses of the South, and the Sentinels of the American Coast, Lighthouse Activity Book, Lighthouse Almanac. Ms. De Wire writes and lectures full-time and creates Kids on the Beam, a bi-monthly column for Lighthouse Digest. She lives in Washington with her husband and her cat, Lighthouse Kitty.
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