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Loading... Sentinel of the Seas: Life and Death at the Most Dangerous Lighthouse Ever Builtby Dennis M. Powers
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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. Good idea, but really could have benefited from better editing; it rambled and repeated a lot. ( ) This is a great book. The author lives in Oregon and Bloomsbury Bookstore in Ashland, OR featured it. The building of the St. George Reef Lighthouse was an engineering feat hardly rivaled in building of lighthouses off the West Coast. Prior to its construction, many ships met their fate as they ran their ships against the barely visible rocks. The builder, Alexander Ballantyne, faced the almost impossible task of getting six ton blocks of granite unto the rocks as the waves washed over them. It took ten years to build and when operational, guided ships around the rocks until 1975 when it was replaced by an automatic beacon. If you are into lighthouses or anything nautical, this is a great book to read. I even wrote to the author and he kindly replied. no reviews | add a review
From the acclaimed author of Treasure Ship, Powers writes the untold true story of the most dangerous, most expensive, and most remote lighthouse ever built and the brave men and women who built this remote outpost. 16-page b & w photo insert. No library descriptions found. |
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Google Books — Loading... GenresMelvil Decimal System (DDC)387.1550979411Social sciences Commerce, Communications, Transportation Rivers, Oceans, and Flight LighthousesLC ClassificationRatingAverage:
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