Year: 2015 Language: english Author: John A. Love Genre: History Publisher: Whittles Publishing ISBN: 978-184995-154-8 Format: PDF Quality: eBook Pages count: 305 Description: The Natural History of Lighthouses traces the history of British and Irish lighthouses. Scotland has an especially rich lighthouse tradition, mainly due to a dynasty of Stevenson engineers, relatives of Robert Louis Stevenson. All of whom also had a profound understanding of weather, geology and natural history, so important in the placing of their lighthouses. The book highlights the story of lightkeepers’ contributions, over the last two centuries, to the natural history of lighthouses in conjunction with the history and maintenance of the manned navigation beacons. Since keepers were first engaged to maintain lighthouses around the British coast they have encountered wildlife, and in some cases developed a keen interest and expertise on the subject. Towards the end of the 19th century keepers were encouraged to submit annual returns of bird movements enabling reports on bird migration and several authoritative books to be compiled. The author gives an account of the building of many of the lighthouses around the coast of Great Britain and Ireland, the enigma of the three missing lighthouse keepers on Flannan Isle is explored, and a chapter is devoted to the Bell Rock, located on rocks some twelve miles off the Angus coast and exceptionally difficult to build.
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A Natural History of Lighthouses
Language: english
Author: John A. Love
Genre: History
Publisher: Whittles Publishing
ISBN: 978-184995-154-8
Format: PDF
Quality: eBook
Pages count: 305
Description: The Natural History of Lighthouses traces the history of British and Irish lighthouses. Scotland has an especially rich lighthouse tradition, mainly due to a dynasty of Stevenson engineers, relatives of Robert Louis Stevenson. All of whom also had a profound understanding of weather, geology and natural history, so important in the placing of their lighthouses. The book highlights the story of lightkeepers’ contributions, over the last two centuries, to the natural history of lighthouses in conjunction with the history and maintenance of the manned navigation beacons. Since keepers were first engaged to maintain lighthouses around the British coast they have encountered wildlife, and in some cases developed a keen interest and expertise on the subject. Towards the end of the 19th century keepers were encouraged to submit annual returns of bird movements enabling reports on bird migration and several authoritative books to be compiled. The author gives an account of the building of many of the lighthouses around the coast of Great Britain and Ireland, the enigma of the three missing lighthouse keepers on Flannan Isle is explored, and a chapter is devoted to the Bell Rock, located on rocks some twelve miles off the Angus coast and exceptionally difficult to build.
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