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Historic Online Reading
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More books to be added
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Latest 3 additions 12/1/10
| Book name, author and Brief
Description |
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| The Lighthouse - Robert M.
Ballantyne (1825-1894). This is a good story wrapped round the building
of the Bell Rock lighthouse, which
lies in the Firth of Forth, the same water in which lies Leith, the
port for Edinburgh. The architect in charge was Robert Stevenson,
who was the father of the renowned writer, R.L. Stevenson. 252 pages. |
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A Lighthouse Village - Louise Lyndon Sibley - A group of sketches portrays a little lighthouse village |
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Lighthouse Construction and
Illumination (1881) - Thomas
Stevenson. 405 pages
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| The lighthouse: A Novel - Elizabeth Harcourt
Mitchell (1860). 314 pages |
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| The modern light-house service
- Johnson, Arnold Burges, 1834-1915. 174 pages |
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| The
United States lighthouse service, 1915
- United States. Bureau of
Light-Houses. 102 pages |
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| Saved at sea: a lighthouse story - 1879 - Amy Catherine Walton (1849-1939). 135 pages | *** |
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| The story of John Smeaton and the Eddystone
lighthouse
- 1876. 134
pages |
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| The lighthouse work of Sir James Chance, Baronet -
Chance, James Frederick, 1856-1937 Includes bibliographical references 192 pages |
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| Medical handbook for the use of lighthouse vessels and stations - United
States. Bureau of Light-Houses - 1912 81 pages |
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| The light keepers : a story of the United
States Light-House Service - Otis, James,
1848-1912 390 pages |
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