EAN: 9781529087147

Bilder-Quelle: averdo

A beautifully illustrated selection of stories about the lighthouses and their guardians found in some of the most remote places on earth. A Financial Times Travel Book of the Year 2023 'Illuminating' - The Observer There is something beautiful and wild in the impossible architecture of lighthouses. They have been the homes and workplaces of men and women whose romantic guardianship has saved countless lives from cruel seas. Yet while that way of life fades away as the lights go out and the buildings crumble we still have their stories. From a blind lighthouse keeper tending a light in the Arctic Circle to an intrepid young girl saving ships from wreck at the foot of her father's lighthouse and the plight of the lighthouse crew cut off from society for forty days this is a glorious book full of illuminating stories that will transport the reader to the world's most isolated and inspiring lighthouses. With over thirty tales that explore the depths to which we can sink and the heights to which we can soar as human beings and accompanied by beautiful illustrations nautical charts maps architectural plans and curious facts A Brief Atlas of the Lighthouses at the End of the World is as full of wonder as the far flung lighthouses themselves. Translated from Spanish by Daniel Hahn

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