Description

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This book is a one-stop resource which offers an amazing wealth of information about the history of lighthouses, lighthouse technology, key people associated with lighthouses, lighthouse organizations, and specific lighthouses around the world. Hundreds of gorgeous color and black-and-white photographs enhance the text.

About the Author

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Ray Jones is the co-author of fourteen best-selling books about lighthouses and several other books on Americana and American history. He has served as an editor at Time-Life Books, as founding editor of "Albuquerque Living" magazine, writing coach at "Southern Livin"g magazine, and founder and publisher of Country Roads Press. He lives in Pebble Beach, California.

Praise For…

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"The Lighthouse Encyclopedia is more than a complete guide to those magnificent towers of light. It is a remarkable work of literature filled with the vast spirit and endless mystery of great waters and those who work upon them. For all of us who love lighthouses and their keepers, this is a book to be read and savored, each page as bright as the spokes of light that yet flash across the sea to guide mariners home."
--Homer Hickam, author of October Sky and The Keeper's Son


"Lighthouse lovers everywhere will welcome this new fact-filled resource. As reminders of a rich maritime heritage, lighthouses need and deserve our help. This book will attract many new recruits to the cause of lighthouse preservation worldwide."
--Rosalie Davis Gibb, Chairman of the World Lighthouse Society