By Admont G. Clark. It is the story of these lighthouses in all ins manifestations that Admont Clark puts before us in this profusely illustrated account. All the physical facts-when and where built, type and range of light, heights above sea level etc. - are here, but the author's major emphasis is on the people who lived and worked in them, their day to day work and, on occasion, the extraordinary efforts that they were called upon to perform. For long before the US Life Saving Service was formed 1872 lighthouse keepers had been organizing rescues and saving the lives of shipwrecked seaman.

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