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Brilliant Beacons: A History of the American Lighthouse

Brilliant Beacons: A History of the American Lighthouse - Paperback

by Eric Jay Dolin
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Availability:In StockContributor:Eric Jay DolinPublish date:2017-04-25Pages:560
Languages:EnglishPublisher:Liveright Publishing CorporationISBN-13:9781631492501ISBN-10:1631492500UPC:9781631492501Book Category:History, ArchitectureBook Subcategory:United States, Maritime History & Piracy, BuildingsBook Topic:Landmarks & MonumentsSize:8.10 x 5.50 x 1.40 inchesWeight:1Product ID:SCWBD84D7S

In this "magnificent compendium" (New Republic), best-selling author Eric Jay Dolin presents the definitive history of American lighthouses, and in so doing "illuminate[s] the history of America itself" (Entertainment Weekly). Treating readers to a memorable cast of characters and "fascinating anecdotes" (New York Review of Books), Dolin shows how the story of the nation, from a regional backwater colony to global industrial power, can be illustrated through its lighthouses--from New England to the Gulf of Mexico, the Great Lakes, the Pacific Coast, and all the way to Alaska and Hawaii.

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Languages:EnglishPublisher:Liveright Publishing CorporationISBN-13:9781631492501ISBN-10:1631492500UPC:9781631492501Book Category:History, ArchitectureBook Subcategory:United States, Maritime History & Piracy, BuildingsBook Topic:Landmarks & MonumentsSize:8.10 x 5.50 x 1.40 inchesWeight:1Product ID:SCWBD84D7S
Dolin, Eric Jay: - Eric Jay Dolin is the author of fourteen books. His most recent is A Furious Sky: The Five-Hundred-Year History of America's Hurricanes, which received a number of accolades, including being chosen by the Washington Post as one of 50 Notable Works of Nonfiction in 2020, by Kirkus Reviews as one of the Best Nonfiction Books of 2020 (in addition to being a Kirkus Prize finalist), by the Library Journal and Booklist as one of the Best Science & Technology Books of 2020, and by the New York Times Book Review as an Editor's Choice. Other books include Leviathan: The History of Whaling in America, which was chosen as one of the Best Nonfiction Books of 2007 by the Los Angeles Times and the Boston Globe, and also won the 2007 John Lyman Award for U.S. Maritime History; and Black Flags, Blue Waters: The Epic History of America's Most Notorious Pirates, which was chosen as a Must-Read book for 2019 by the Massachusetts Center for the Book, and was a finalist for the 2019 Julia Ward Howe Award given by the Boston Author's Club. A graduate of Brown, Yale, and MIT, where he received his Ph.D. in environmental policy, Dolin lives in Marblehead, Massachusetts, with his family.
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