Lighting the Coast: A History of New Zealand's Coastal Lighthouse System

AUTHOR : Helen Beaglehole
Category : Nautical >
$59.99 (NZD)  inc GST
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Lighting The Coast is the first comprehensive history of New Zealand’s system of ‘well-placed and effective’ lighthouses that were essential for ‘the great maritime future’ the country’s government envisaged. This authoritative and highly readable book reveals the fascinating story of the siting, design, construction, operation and eventual demanning of those nineteenth and early twentieth century monuments of engineering. It reveals much of the lives of the lighthouse keepers - practical, independent men who took their families to live in remote parts of New Zealand - and raises critical questions about the future of these historic structures. Lighting The Coast features more than 250 black and white and colour illustrations, including photographs, diagrams, maps and charts. First published November 2006.

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General Fields

  • : 9781877257438
  • : Canterbury University Press
  • : Canterbury University Press
  • : 270mm X 200mm
  • : New Zealand
  • : books

Special Fields

  • : photos, diagrams, maps, charts
  • : Australasian & Pacific history; Navigation & seamanship
  • : 300
  • : 387.1550993
  • : illustrated edition
  • : Hardback
  • : Helen Beaglehole