Lighting the Bay : Tales of Chesapeake Lighthouses download book
Lighting the Bay : Tales of Chesapeake Lighthouses download book
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Author: Pat Vojtech
Page Count: 208 pages
Published Date: 01 Jan 2010
Publisher: Cornell Maritime Press Inc.,U.S.
Publication Country: Centreville, United States
Language: English
Type: eBook
ISBN: 9780870334665
File size: 19 Mb
File Name: lighting.the.bay.tales.of.chesapeake.lighthouses.pdf
Download Link: lighting the bay tales of chesapeake lighthouses
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From the beginning, it was a struggle to light the Chesapeake. Its soft, undulating bottom presented different problems from those faced along the rocky coasts of New England. The bays shores shifted before the winds, tides, and hurricanes that plagued the 200-mile-long estuary, and so did the towers of the Chesapeake. On land, erosion was the silent menace; on the water, it was ice. More than a dozen Chesapeake lighthouses bowed and broke before the pressure of thousands of tons of ice bearing down on them. In many cases, the keepers barely escaped with their lives. Lighting the Bay: Tales of Chesapeake Lighthouses documents the dramatic events that surrounded the difficult job of lighting the bay and manning the lighthouses. With more than 100 attractive color photographs and an informative historical narrative, Pat Vojtech communicates both facts and the human saga of life as it was on the bays lighthouses. From heroic rescues to untimely deaths, from the routine of daily tasks to battles with ice, cold, injury, and loneliness; Vojtech provides an intimate portrait of life on the guiding lights of the Chesapeake.
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Lighting the Bay : Tales of Chesapeake Lighthouses. Pat Vojtech
Author: Pat Vojtech
Page Count: 208 pages
Published Date: 01 Jan 2010
Publisher: Cornell Maritime Press Inc.,U.S.
Publication Country: Centreville, United States
Language: English
Type: eBook
ISBN: 9780870334665
File size: 19 Mb
File Name: lighting.the.bay.tales.of.chesapeake.lighthouses.pdf
Download Link: lighting the bay tales of chesapeake lighthouses
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From the beginning, it was a struggle to light the Chesapeake. Its soft, undulating bottom presented different problems from those faced along the rocky coasts of New England. The bays shores shifted before the winds, tides, and hurricanes that plagued the 200-mile-long estuary, and so did the towers of the Chesapeake. On land, erosion was the silent menace; on the water, it was ice. More than a dozen Chesapeake lighthouses bowed and broke before the pressure of thousands of tons of ice bearing down on them. In many cases, the keepers barely escaped with their lives. Lighting the Bay: Tales of Chesapeake Lighthouses documents the dramatic events that surrounded the difficult job of lighting the bay and manning the lighthouses. With more than 100 attractive color photographs and an informative historical narrative, Pat Vojtech communicates both facts and the human saga of life as it was on the bays lighthouses. From heroic rescues to untimely deaths, from the routine of daily tasks to battles with ice, cold, injury, and loneliness; Vojtech provides an intimate portrait of life on the guiding lights of the Chesapeake.
Read online Lighting the Bay : Tales of Chesapeake Lighthouses Buy and read online Lighting the Bay : Tales of Chesapeake Lighthouses Download and read Lighting the Bay : Tales of Chesapeake Lighthouses for pc, mac, kindle, readers Download to iPad/iPhone/iOS, B&N nook Lighting the Bay : Tales of Chesapeake Lighthouses