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Seashaken Houses A Lighthouse History from Eddystone to Fastnet


Year: 2018
Language: english
Author: Tom Nancollas
Genre: History
Publisher: Penguin Random House
ISBN: 9781846149375
Format: EPUB
Quality: eBook
Pages count: 256
Description: "Lighthouses are enduring monuments to our relationship with the sea". According to the Ordnance Survey, the coast of Great Britain is 17,820km long, with a coastline-to-area ratio of more than 50 (compared with, say, Antarctica, which is one). For over four centuries structural engineers have set their minds to building the monumental beacons; while there are plenty of onshore structures dedicated to the purpose, there have only ever been 27 offshore lighthouses, of which only 20 survive. Seven of them form the core of the volume. The author trained as a building conservationist and began to take an interest in lighthouses, their form, service and history – particularly the lonely rock lighthouses that aren’t built on coasts or islands but “appear to rise straight out of the sea, their circular foundations often unseen”. He pursued these enigmatic edifices in books, across sands, seas and even by helicopter. The result is a series of intensely interesting essays, and the book is a selective and personal account of eight particular rock lighthouses, in nine chapters. Each separate chapter, as well as addressing the particularity of one place and one history, tells a different part of the overall story – early efforts and failures, the changing design of the lights themselves, the life of the keepers. Seashaken Houses is an exploration of these isolated sentinels, the ingenuity of those who conceived them, the people who risked their lives building and rebuilding them, those that inhabited their circular rooms, and the ways in which we value emblems of our history in a changing world.

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