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A BRIEF ATLAS OF THE LIGHTHOUSES AT THE END OF ...

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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