Shona Riddell

Guiding Lights (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Women have a long history of keeping the lights burning, from tending ancient altar flames or bonfires to modern-day lighthouse keeping. Yet most of their stories are little known. Guiding Lights includes stories from around the world spanning two millennia, as we discover the physical and mental risks of isolation, the heroism of the female keepers, how they came to be hired (especially in the 19th century), and the mysteries and legends that are inextricably part of lighthouse history.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Exisle publishing
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. Oktober 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781775594611
• Artikelnr.: 60697943

Autorenporträt

Shona Riddell has a long-held fascination with lighthouses. A writer for 20 years (including her subantarctic history book Trial of Strength with Exisle Publishing), Shona lives with her husband and two daughters in Wellington, New Zealand. She enjoys cold, windy weather and stories about remote locations.

Inhaltsangabe

TABLE OF CONTENTS
Introduction -A world apart
1. Watch-fire’s light - The origin and evolution of lighthouses
2. Day and night - The role of a keeper
3. Modest yet so brave - Grace Darling and Ida Lewis
4. Keeping her lamp alight - The lives of female keepers
5. Ceaseless vigil - The impact of isolation
6. Whispers of the past - Ghosts, legends and mysteries
7. Lonely outposts - Lighthouse women in the twentieth century
8. The turning of the light - Today’s keepers and caretakers
Epilogue: To the lighthouse
Acknowledgements
Bibliography
Image credits
Endnotes
Appendix: The lighthouses of Guiding Lights
Index