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Seashaken Houses

A Lighthouse History from Eddystone to Fastnet

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Seashaken Houses

By: Tom Nancollas
Narrated by: David Monteath
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Lighthouses are striking totems of our relationship to the sea. For many, they encapsulate a romantic vision of solitary homes amongst the waves, but their original purpose is much more utilitarian than that. Still today we depend upon their guiding lights for the safe passage of ships. Nowhere is this truer than in the rock lighthouses of Great Britain and Ireland, a ring of 19 towers built between 1811-1905, so called because they were constructed on desolate rock formations in the middle of the sea, and made of granite to withstand the power of its waves.

Seashaken Houses is a lyrical exploration of these singular towers, the people who risked their lives building and rebuilding them, those that inhabited their circular rooms, and the ways in which we value emblems of our history in a changing world.

©2018 Tom Nancollas (P)2019 Audible, Ltd Architecture Ecosystems & Habitats Europe Great Britain Maritime History & Piracy Nature & Ecology Outdoors & Nature Science World England
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bowled over by this book. hooked from the first chapter, the performance is spot on, but the content, stories, history and the writing engaged me totally.

what a great surprise

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I really enjoyed this book, certainly one that can be listened to again quite quickly.

Thoroughly enjoyable

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Interesting details on the way in which the lighthouses were built and lived in. Well narrated.

Fascinating look at rock light houses

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The author paints portraits of eight famous lighthouses of the British Isles and relates their stories of tragedy and endeavor.

Eight Portraits

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Nicely narrated factual story of the rock lighthouses around our coast and the brave souls who built and worked in them before most were automated.

A fascinating history

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