Author : Albert Lamb
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 45 pages
File Size : 26,79 MB
Release : 2011-06-07
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 1596435259
What happens when a bear, a boy, and a dog get into a boat? This charming adventure story takes a simple premise and carries it to its logical and imaginative conclusion. Full color.
Author : Hudson River Maritime Museum
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 26,97 MB
Release : 2019
Category : History
ISBN : 1467103306
Lighthouses were built on the Hudson River in New York between 1826 to 1921 to help guide freight and passenger traffic. One of the most famous was the iconic Statue of Liberty. This fascinating history with photos will bring the time of traffic along the river alive. Set against the backdrop of purple mountains, lush hillsides, and tidal wetlands, the lighthouses of the Hudson River were built between 1826 and 1921 to improve navigational safety on a river teeming with freight and passenger traffic. Unlike the towering beacons of the seacoasts, these river lighthouses were architecturally diverse, ranging from short conical towers to elaborate Victorian houses. Operated by men and women who at times risked and lost their lives in service of safe navigation, these beacons have overseen more than a century of extraordinary technological and social change. Of the dozens of historic lighthouses and beacons that once dotted the Hudson River, just eight remain, including the iconic Statue of Liberty, New York Harbor's great monument to freedom and immigration, which served as an official lighthouse between 1886 and 1902. Hudson River Lighthouses invites readers to explore these unique icons and their fascinating stories.
Author : Michael O'Brien
Publisher : Ignatius Press
Page : 203 pages
File Size : 14,86 MB
Release : 2020-08-11
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1621643662
Ethan McQuarry is a young lighthouse keeper on a tiny island, the rugged outcropping of easternmost Cape Breton Island on the Atlantic Ocean. A man without any family, he sees himself as a silent "vigilant", performing his duties courageously year after year, with an admirable sense of responsibility. He cherishes his solitude and is grateful that his interactions with human beings are rare. Even so, he is haunted by his aloneness in the world and by a feeling that his life is meaningless. His courage, his integrity, his love of the sea and wildlife, of practical skills and of learning are, in the end, not enough. He is faced with internal storms and sometimes literal storms of terrifying power. From time to time he becomes aware that messengers are sent to him from what he calls "the awakeness" in existence, "the listeningness." But he cannot at first recognize them as messengers nor understand what they might be telling him, until he finds himself caught up in catastrophic events, and begins to see the mysterious undercurrents of reality—and the hidden face of love. "They that go down to the sea in ships, trading upon the waters, they see the works of the Lord and his wonders in the deep." - Psalm 107: 23
Author : Cheryl Shelton-Roberts
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 343 pages
File Size : 41,97 MB
Release : 2013-10-01
Category : History
ISBN : 1561646113
What was it like to live and work at a lighthouse during the heyday of shipping and fishing? How did lighthouse keepers and their families stationed on remote islands while away the long, cold, lonely hours between trips to the mainland for food and supplies? Here you'll find a record of the charming memories and stories of America's lighthouse keepers, including descriptions of daily life at a lighthouse.
Author : Dianna Stampfler
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 140 pages
File Size : 45,65 MB
Release : 2019-08-26
Category : History
ISBN : 143966630X
Travel Michigan’s coast—and into the state’s history—with otherworldly tales of the spirits of those who sought to keep its waters safe. Michigan has more lighthouses than any other state, with more than 120 dotting its expansive Great Lakes shoreline. Many of these lighthouses lay claim to haunted happenings. Former keepers like the cigar-smoking Captain Townshend at Seul Choix Point and prankster John Herman at Waugoshance Shoal near Mackinaw City maintain their watch long after death ended their duties. At White River Light Station in Whitehall, Sarah Robinson still keeps a clean and tidy house, and a mysterious young girl at the Marquette Harbor Lighthouse seeks out other children and female companions. Countless spirits remain between Whitefish Point and Point Iroquois in an area well known for its many tragic shipwrecks. Join author and Promote Michigan founder Dianna Stampfler as she recounts the tales from Michigan’s ghostly beacons. “Haunting tales of Michigan’s lighthouses . . . Her stories come from lighthouse museums, friends and family.”—Great Lakes Echo
Author : RICHARD SATTANNI
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 84 pages
File Size : 27,12 MB
Release : 2018-06-04
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1387856057
This is a novel full of short mystery stories related to the sea and haunted lighthouse is the setting as these stories come to life on the pages for the adventurous reader.This truly is the authors'best book to date.
Author : M.L. Stedman
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 339 pages
File Size : 50,28 MB
Release : 2012
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1451681755
A cloth bag containing ten copies of the title.
Author : William Monahan
Publisher : Odyssey Editions
Page : 171 pages
File Size : 34,16 MB
Release : 2013-02-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1623730104
A hilarious farce, in which a coastal New England hotel, the reader’s expectations, and possibly The Novel itself, are turned inside out by an outrageous cast of characters, a mutinous Author, and the onset of a disastrous storm.
Author : Keith McCloskey
Publisher : The History Press
Page : 259 pages
File Size : 24,89 MB
Release : 2014-07-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0750957417
On 26 December 1900, the vessel Hesperus arrived at Eilean Mor in the remote Outer Hebrides with a relief lighthouseman and fresh provisions. The lighthouse had been in operation for a year, but it had been noted that no light had been seen from Eilean Mor for several days. The relief keeper, Joseph Moore, found the lighthouse to be completely deserted, and a subsequent search of the island failed to reveal any sign of what had happened to the three keepers. The last entry in the logbook had been made on 15 December and contained a number of strange and distressing clues as to the mental states of the men. One was reported to have been crying, while another had become 'very quiet'. When it was revealed that the men's oilskin coats were missing and the clock in the lighthouse had stopped, theories surrounding the keepers' fates inevitably proliferated. These included a giant wave washing them away, murder or suicide. Others favoured more esoteric explanations – Eilean Mor was believed to have mystical properties. In The Lighthouse, Keith McCloskey explores this mysterious and chilling story in depth for the first time and reveals a shocking conclusion.
Author : Truman R. Strobridge
Publisher :
Page : 52 pages
File Size : 10,88 MB
Release : 1974
Category : Aids to navigation
ISBN :
