9780006530763 - the lighthouse stevensons: the extraordinary story of the building of the scottish lighthouses by the ancestors of robert louis stevenson von bathurst, bella (14 Ergebnisse)
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Sprache: Englisch
Verlag: HarperCollins Publishers, United Kingdom, London, 2005
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Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. An exciting new edition of Bella Bathurst's epic story of Robert Louis Stevenson's ancestors and the building of the Scottish coastal lighthouses against impossible odds. 'Whenever I smell salt water, I know that I am not far from one of the works of my ancestors,' wrote Robert Louis Stevenson in 1…880. 'When the lights come out at sundown along the shores of Scotland, I am proud to think they burn more brightly for the genius of my father!' Robert Louis Stevenson was the most famous of the Stevensons, but not by any means the most productive. The Lighthouse Stevensons, all four generations of them, built every lighthouse round Scotland, were responsible for a slew of inventions in both construction and optics, and achieved feats of engineering in conditions that would be forbidding even today. The same driven energy which Robert Louis Stevenson put into writing, his ancestors put into lighting the darkness of the seas. The Lighthouse Stevensons is a story of high endeavour, beautifully told; indeed, Bella Bathurst writes like a dream and this was one of the most celebrated works of historical biography in recent memory. As a unique history that evokes the exact feel of time and place, this book is quite exceptional. 'My own interest in the Lighthouse Stevensons is threefold. Firstly, from the writings of Robert Louis Stevenson, who turned his family's trade into the raw gold of all his best fiction. Secondly, from various trips around Scotland. The country's coast is a mass of storm-beaten rocks and treacherous headlands on which even the seagulls have trouble landing. It is impossible not to speculate what combination of courage and skill built the lighthouses around such an environment. And thirdly, because somewhere in there, unrecognised and unsung, is the most wonderful story!'. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.
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Zustand: Used - Very Good. VG paperback. Reprint. A tidy copy in tight binding. The extraordinary story of the building of the Scottish lighthouses by the ancestors of Robert Louis Stevenson. Used - Very Good. VG paperback.
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Soft cover. Zustand: Very Good. As photographed; creases to cover corners; pages gently tanned; otherwise unmarked and clean throughout showing no signs of use; private ownership; xx + 284 incl. index + 16pls. "Bella Bathurst has built a lamp herself: it illuminates the work of a literary hero [Robert Louis Stevenson], a family…business, a habit of mind and a Scottish period. . from the summit of this terrific first book she looks to become one of the best biographers of her generation" (The Times); "Bella Bathurst has done a marvellous and scholarly job" (Evening Standard); "This is a grand book doing for lighthouses what Dava Sobel's 'Longitude' did for marine chronometers, and doing it, if comparisons are to be made, with considerably more panache" (Sunday Telegraph).
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Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. 284 pages. I for one had no idea that the 14 lighthouses dotting the Scottish coast were all built by the same Stevenson family that produced Robert Louis Stevenson, Sc otland's most famous novelist. But Bella Bathurst throws a powerful, revolving l ight into the darkness of this historical traditi…on.Robert Louis was a si ckly fellow, and - unlike the rest of his strong-willed, determined family - cer tainly not up to the astonishing rigours of lighthouse building, all of which ar e vividly described here.To build these towering structures in the most i nhospitable places imaginable (such as the aptly named Cape Wrath), using only 1 9th-century technology is an achievement that beggars belief. The comparison tha t comes to mind is with the pyramid building of ancient Egypt.For instanc e, we learn that the ground rocks for the Skerryvore lighthouse were prepared by hand (even though the gneiss could blunt a pick in three blows) in waves and winds strong enough to lift a man bodily off the rock and that it took 120 ho urs to dress a single stone for the outside of the tower and 320 hours to dress one of the central stones. In total 5000 tons of stone were quarried and shipped - and all by hand. It is mind-boggling stuff: you'll look at lighthouses with a new respect.- Adam Roberts.
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Zustand: Good. 1999 edition with different cover design. Light bumps/wear at edges/corners. Some marks/scratches/creasing to cover/spine. Tanning at text blocks/page edges. Waving effect at some pages. Text good.
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Soft cover. Zustand: Very Good. 2nd Edition. Very good condition. Minor wear to book corners and edges. Pages are sunned. Previous owner has stamped inside cover with bookplate stamp and has stuck a newspaper cutting to title page. The clipping relates to the Bathurst lightouse on Rottnest Island.
