Alone in the Night: Lighthouses of Georgian Bay, Manitoulin Island and the North Channel

by Russell Floren, Andrea Gutsche, Barbara Chisholm

Book Overview

Alone in the Night traces the evolution of 130 years of lightkeeping by revealing the heroic and the scandalous, the gritty and routine aspects of this remarkable chapter of marine history. The book,... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0969842759
• ISBN13: 9780969842750
• Release Date: June 1996
• Publisher: Lynx Images
• Length: 300 Pages
• Weight: 2.50 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Fascinating account of a quickly fading part of our history

Life alone for months in a remote lighthouse is fast becoming a fading part of our history. Because one of the keepers talked about in this book was a great uncle, it was doubly fascinating to me and my family.

An outstanding contribution

Part I of the book (Lighthouse Basics) deals with such questions as why the lighthouses were built, what they look (or looked) like, who kept them, and how they worked. It then goes on to describe more than 60 lighthouses, many of which disappeared long ago. The book contains a large number of old photos depicting the lighthouses as well as people associated with them, along with historical notes and anecdotes. A truly outstanding contribution to the history of lighthouses in Canada.