Great American Lighthouses

ISBN-13: 9780471143871 / Angielski / Miękka / 1995 / 352 str.

F. Ross Holland;Holland; George J. Mitchell

Opis

Lighthouses are increasingly endangered by modernization and abandonment. Simple steel skeletons are replacing the picturesque, conical towers, squat screwpiles and Cape Cod styles so much a part of America's maritime history.

Spis treści

THE LIGHTHOUSES.

New England.

Mid–Atlantic.

Southeast.

Gulf of Mexico.

Great Lakes.

West.

Epilogue: Lost Lights and Losing Battles.

Bibliography.

Index.