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Lighting the Bay: Tales of Chesapeake Lighthouses
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Description for Lighting the Bay: Tales of Chesapeake Lighthouses
Hardcover. Num Pages: 208 pages, 104 color , 59 b/w photos & 1 map. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBJK; WTH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 238 x 305 x 20. Weight in Grams: 1254.
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 bay’s 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 ... Read more
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 bay’s 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 ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1997
Publisher
Tidewater Pub
Condition
New
Number of Pages
208
Place of Publication
Atglen, United States
ISBN
9780870334665
SKU
V9780870334665
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