California Lighthouses

By Sharlene Nelson and Ted Nelson

Book Overview

Sailing along California's often forbidding coast was a risky venture before 1854, the year the state's first lighthouse was established. Eventually more than forty lighthouse stations were built to guide mariners along 1,200 miles of coastline from San Diego to the Redwood Coast, and through bays and inland waters.

Sharlene and Ted Nelson tell absorbing stories about each of these lighthouse stations, about the feats of their builders, and about the heroics of the men and women who tended the lights and fog signals. This new edition also contains:

- Information about lighthouses open to the public and offering tours.

- Directions for reaching the lighthouses by road or on foot.

- Numerous maps and photo graphs.

- Information about finding the classic Fresnel lens still in use or display.

- Tips for staying overnight in keepers' dwellings.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1684922097
• ISBN13: 9781684922093
• Release Date: December 2023
• Publisher: Epicenter Press (WA)
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 0.79 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

Great resource for your lighthouse travels

I recently took a trip to California and visited a few of the lighthouses in the book. I purchased this book in advance and brought it with me on my travels. As I approached each lighthouse visited, I read from the book to my "travel-mates". We learned the directions and a brief history of each lighthouse. The information was condensed, easy-to-read and informative. Best of all, the directions for finding each lighthouse were accurate. This book was a great resource for planning my trip and I hope to use it again in the future as a reference when I return to the area to see a few more California lighthouses. A great travel resource and also a great book to just read and learn more.

Great book for finding lighthouses

The Nelsons write a knowledgible book about California's lighthouses. It is a great guide to those lighthouses. These people are great friends to lighthouses, having written several other Umbrella Guides. (Oregon, Washington) We have found them very useful in our quest to photograph every lighthouse in the U.S.