Name: From the Lighthouse
Brand: Robert Farrah
SKU: 5683
Price: 30.00 GBP
Availability: InStock

From the Lighthouse

£30.00

This casebound book is illustrated by nearly one hundred full colour images of lighthouses and the men who kept the lights on to protect ships and sailors.
240 pages, hardback, 99 colour illustrations

Farrah is a gifted recorder of a history which could so easily have been lost.

This book is to be featured in this year’s Literary Festival at Senhouse Roman Museum. More details at: https://share.google/Ab0rIvmWBEjbbR1EK

Category: History ISBN: 978-1-910237-84-7

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GUIDING LIGHTS for centuries, lighthouses have helped mariners avoid danger and bring them to safe harbours. They are beacons of hope and the men who risked their lives to save others are recognised as heroes. The rocky shores of the British Isles are graced with many spectacular lighthouses, which inspire admiration for their builders and their keepers who faced great challenges including ferocious gales, long periods of quiet maintenance work and isolation, especially in the days before modern communications.

This book explores all this and more as the author writes from 27 years of personal experience plus research of records from earlier times.

“From the Lighthouse” is the second book from the author of the best-selling guide to “The Stone Circles of Cumbria” winner of an award at the Lakeland Book of the Year competition. Robert will be speaking at this year’s Words by the Water event at the Theatre by the Lake, Keswick, Cumbria, on Sunday 16th March.

The book was reviewed in the autumn edition of the LAMP journal:

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Robert Farrah

Robert Farrah’s main interests are hill walking, mountaineering and prehistory, which have combined to provide a unique insight and understanding of these mysterious monuments – the stone circles. His special interests are archaeology and astronomy. He published his first article on the subject The Megalithic Astronomy of Lundy in the early 1990s, the result of research with the late Professor Gerald S. Hawkins. His articles have contributed significant original research and have appeared in various journals worldwide. He has lived in Cumbria since 1984 and has acted as a guide to the stone circles for many antiquarian and archaeological societies and various local authorities. Farrah continues to engage in fieldwork and research on the Cumbrian stone circles.