Lighthouse Keeper's Wife
Author : Constance Scovill Small
Publisher :
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 27,45 MB
Release : 1986
Category : Lighthouse keepers
ISBN :
Author : Constance Scovill Small
Publisher :
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 27,45 MB
Release : 1986
Category : Lighthouse keepers
ISBN :
Author : M.L. Stedman
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 339 pages
File Size : 22,79 MB
Release : 2012
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1451681755
A cloth bag containing ten copies of the title.
Author : Jeanette Aplin
Publisher :
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 39,26 MB
Release : 2001-04-09
Category : Lighthouse keepers
ISBN : 9780908561872
THE LIGHTHOUSE KEEPER'S WIFE is a classic New Zealand story of life on remote Stephens Island, famous for its wild life and stronghold of the pre-historic tuatara. Above all, this is a human story of self-discovery and the lighthouse community, far away from the everyday world. Jeanette Aplin writes with unusual candour, revealing her struggles to live up to her high ideals, and 'to be a good, true, lighthouse keeper's wife.' Her book is funny, suspenseful, surprising. As she brings alive a way of life now gone forever, she draws even the most home-bound reader into becoming part of the island's rare magic. Jeanette Aplin now lives with her husband Pip on D'Urville Island ... No electricity in the house, no road to the door.
Author : Karen Viggers
Publisher : Allen & Unwin
Page : 401 pages
File Size : 44,44 MB
Release : 2012
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1743310390
Elderly and in poor health, Mary fulfils her wish to herself to live out her last days on Bruny Island with only her regrets and memories for company. A long time ago, her late husband was the lighthousekeeper on Bruny, and she'd raised a family on the wild windswept island, until terrible circumstances forced them back to civilisation. The long-buried secret that has haunted her for decades now threatens to break free and she is hoping to banish it once and for all before her time is up.
Author : Hazel Gaynor
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 34,14 MB
Release : 2018-10-09
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 006269863X
From The New York Times bestselling author of The Girl Who Came Home comes a historical novel inspired by true events, and the extraordinary female lighthouse keepers of the past two hundred years. “They call me a heroine, but I am not deserving of such accolades. I am just an ordinary young woman who did her duty.” 1838: Northumberland, England. Longstone Lighthouse on the Farne Islands has been Grace Darling’s home for all of her twenty-two years. When she and her father rescue shipwreck survivors in a furious storm, Grace becomes celebrated throughout England, the subject of poems, ballads, and plays. But far more precious than her unsought fame is the friendship that develops between Grace and a visiting artist. Just as George Emmerson captures Grace with his brushes, she in turn captures his heart. 1938: Newport, Rhode Island. Nineteen-years-old and pregnant, Matilda Emmerson has been sent away from Ireland in disgrace. She is to stay with Harriet, a reclusive relative and assistant lighthouse keeper, until her baby is born. A discarded, half-finished portrait opens a window into Matilda’s family history. As a deadly hurricane approaches, two women, living a century apart, will be linked forever by their instinctive acts of courage and love.
Author : Charles J. Fourie
Publisher :
Page : 55 pages
File Size : 36,32 MB
Release : 2015
Category : Robben Island (South Africa)
ISBN : 9781775898306
Author : Ronda Armitage
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 27,72 MB
Release : 2022-01-08
Category : Food
ISBN : 9780702318627
Once there was a lighthouse keeper called Mr Grinling... Mr Grinling LOVES his food, but - oh no! - he's not the only one who likes a snack and the local seagulls have started stealing Mrs Grinling's tasty treats...! Can Mr and Mrs Grinling come up with a cunning plan to keep those pesky seagulls away?
Author : Ronda Armitage
Publisher : Scholastic UK
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 11,76 MB
Release : 2016-08-04
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 1407171518
Once there was a lighthouse keeper called Mr. Grinling. At night time he lived in a small white cottage perched high on the cliffs, and in the daytime he rowed out to his lighthouse to clean and polish the light... When Hamish, the lighthouse keeper's cat, hears that Mr and Mrs Grinling are going to put him on a diet, he decides to find somewhere else to live. Soon, though, Hamish realises that there's no place like home. The first Lighthouse Keeper story, THE LIGHTHOUSE KEEPER'S LUNCH, published over thirty years ago. It is now a modern picture book classic, and his adventures have been loved by children ever since.
Author : Sophie Blackall
Publisher : Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Page : 51 pages
File Size : 46,80 MB
Release : 2018-04-10
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 0316362379
A beloved picture book from two-time Caldecott Medal award-winner Sophie Blackall that transports readers to the seaside in timeless, nautical splendor! Watch the days and seasons pass as the wind blows, the fog rolls in, and icebergs drift by. Outside, there is water all around. Inside, the daily life of a lighthouse keeper and his family unfolds as the keeper boils water for tea, lights the lamp's wick, and writes every detail in his logbook. Step back in time and through the door of this iconic lighthouse into a cozy dollhouse-like interior with the extraordinary award-winning artist Sophie Blackall.
Author : Mary Louise Clifford
Publisher :
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 20,19 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN :
Hundreds of American women have kept the lamps burning in lighthouses since Hannah Thomas tended Gurnet Point Light in Plymouth, Massachusetts, while her husband was away fighting in the War for Independence. Women Who Kept the Lights details the careers of 32 intrepid women who were official keepers of light stations on the Atlantic, Gulf, and Pacific Coasts, on Lake Champlain and the Great Lakes, staying at their posts for periods ranging from a few years to half a century. Most of these women served in the nineteenth century, when the keeper lit a number of lamps in the tower at dusk, replenished their fuel or replaced them at midnight, and every morning polished the lamps and lanterns to keep their lights shining brightly. Several of these stalwart women were commended for their courage in remaining at their posts through severe storms and hurricanes. A few went to the rescue of seamen when ships capsized or were wrecked. Their varied stories paint a multifaceted picture of a unique profession in our maritime history.