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Author Love, John A

Title A natural history of lighthouses / John A. Love
Published Caithness, Scotland : Whittles Publishing, [2015]
©2015

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Description 1 online resource (vii, 292 pages) : illustrations (chiefly color)
Contents Preface ; 1 A Fatal Force of Nature; 2 The Greatest Storm ; 3 The Dark Coast ; 4 Planting the Tower ; 5 A Most Dangerous Situation ; 6 An Endless Calendar ; 7 This Formidable Work ; 8 Sources of Safety ; 9 The Works of my Ancestors ; 10 More Interest and Variety ; 11 Studies in Bird Migration ; 12 Bird Strikes and Observatories ; 13 Still Friendly and Welcoming
Summary The natural history contribution of keepers in the lighthouse story, as well as the history of lighthouses and the Stevenson dynasty
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Subject Lighthouses -- Great Britain
Birds -- Great Britain
Ornithology -- Great Britain
Natural history -- Great Britain
TRANSPORTATION -- Ships & Shipbuilding -- Pictorial.
Birds
Lighthouses
Natural history
Ornithology
Great Britain
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781849952996
184995299X