The Lighthouse Stevensons

Author : Bella Bathurst
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0062094742
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.42/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Lighthouse Stevensons written by Bella Bathurst and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2011-06-28 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For centuries the seas around Scotland were notorious for shipwrecks. Mariners' only aids were skill, luck, and single coal-fire light on the east coast, which was usually extinguished by rain. In 1786 the Northern Lighthouse Trust was established, with Robert Stevenson appointed as chief engineer a few years later. In this engrossing book, Bella Bathhurst reveals that the Stevensons not only supervised the construction of the lighthouses under often desperate conditions but also perfected a design of precisely chiseled interlocking granite blocks that would withstand the enormous waves that batter these stone pillars. The same Stevensons also developed the lamps and lenses of the lights themselves, which "sent a gleam across the wave" and prevented countless ships from being lost at sea. While it is the writing of Robert Louis Stevenson that brought fame to the family name, this mesmerizing account shows how his extraordinary ancestors changed the shape of the Scotland coast against incredible odds and with remarkable technical ingenuity.

Author : Bella Bathurst
Publisher : HarperCollins UK
ISBN 13 : 0007358970
Total Pages : 57 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Lighthouse Stevensons written by Bella Bathurst and published by HarperCollins UK. This book was released on 2010-01-07 with total page 57 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bella Bathurst’s epic story of Robert Louis Stevenson’s ancestors and the building of the Scottish coastal lighthouses against impossible odds.

Author : Bella Bathurst
Publisher : HarperCollins UK
ISBN 13 : 0007204434
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Lighthouse Stevensons written by Bella Bathurst and published by HarperCollins UK. This book was released on 2005 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bella Bathurst tells the story of how Robert Louis Stevenson's ancestors built the network of lighthouses around the coast of Scotland. The family built all of the Scottish lighthouses, the last one of which became automated in 1998.

Author : R. G. Grant
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780500519769
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.65/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sentinels of the Sea written by R. G. Grant and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lighthouses have always unsettled and attracted in equal measure, highlighting the triumphs and failures in humanity's battle with the forces of nature. Taking as its heroes the lighthouses themselves, Sentinels of the Sea describes the engineering genius that allowed their construction on even the smallest of rock outcrops and the innovations that made the lights so powerful and reliable. Intricate, elegant architectural plans and elevations, and evocative period drawings and photographs showcase the innovative designs and technologies behind fifty historic lighthouses built around the world from the 17th to the 20th century. R.G. Grant's engaging and authoritative text chronicles the incredible feats of engineering and endurance that brought these iconic, isolated towers into being, the advances in lens technology that made the lights so effective, and the everyday routines of the lighthouse keepers and the heroic rescues that some performed. Packed with extraordinary stories of human endeavour, desperate shipwrecks, builders defying the elements and heroic sea rescues, the book also reveals the isolation and vulnerability of the dedicated lighthouse keepers.

Author : Henry Bennet Brewster
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 52 pages
Book Rating : 4.53/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Wreckers written by Henry Bennet Brewster and published by . This book was released on 1909 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Robert Stevenson
Publisher : Independently Published
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 558 pages
Book Rating : 4.79/5 ( download)

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Download or read book An Account of the Bell Rock Lighthouse written by Robert Stevenson and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2021-02-27 with total page 558 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bell Rock, a small outcrop lying just below the roiling waves of the North Sea, had long been the site of smashed ships and doomed sailors, with an estimated 6 shipwrecks per year as the 18th century drew to a close. With the need for navigational warning, Robert Stevenson took command of the planning and construction of what would become the legendary Bell Rock Lighthouse. In his Account, Stevenson details the monumental task of building a structure to stand up to the ferocity of the open ocean, using revolutionary engineering and construction techniques, on a rock only visible a few hours a day at low tide.

Author : Bella Bathurst
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.90/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Lighthouse Stevensons written by Bella Bathurst and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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ISBN 13 :
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Download or read book Records of a Family of Engineers written by and published by . This book was released on with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Roland Paxton
Publisher : Whittles
ISBN 13 : 9780956720900
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.00/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dynasty of Engineers written by Roland Paxton and published by Whittles. This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Account of the building of the lighthouse and the famous engineering Stevensons

Author : Peter Hill
Publisher : Canongate Books
ISBN 13 : 1847677495
Total Pages : 337 pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Stargazing written by Peter Hill and published by Canongate Books. This book was released on 2012-03-16 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Peter Hill, a student at Dundee College of Art, answered an advert in The Scotsman seeking lighthouse keepers, little did he imagine that within a month he would be living with three men he didn't know in a lighthouse on Pladda, a small remote island off the west coast of Scotland. Hill was nineteen, it was 1973 and, with his head fed by Vietnam, Zappa, Kerouac, Vonnegut, Watergate and Coronation Street, he spent six months on various lighthouses, "keeping" with all manner of unusual and fascinating people. Within thirty years this way of life was to have disappeared entirely. The resulting book is a charming and beautifully written memoir that is not only a heartfelt lament for Hill's own youth and innocence but also for a simpler and more honest age.