Cape Hatteras America's Lighthouse: Guardian of the Graveyard of the Atlantic

by Cheryl Shelton-Roberts, Bruce Roberts, Thomas Yocum

Book Overview

This is the complete story of the lighthouse at Cape Hatteras, which for almost two hundred years has guided mariners through the treacherous waters off North Carolina's easternmost point. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 158182033X
• ISBN13: 9781581820331
• Release Date: July 1999
• Publisher: Cumberland House Publishing
• Length: 159 Pages
• Weight: 1.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 8.2" x 10.5"

Customer Reviews

Review by Homer H. Hickam

Cape Hatteras: America's Lighthouse is a treasure to all of us who love what is arguably the most famous lighthouse in the world. The authors should be commended for writing not only a fascinating look into the past and future of this great beacon, but also a damn fine tale of passion, perseverance, intrigue, romance, grand schemes, utter calamities, and vast heroism.This is an important bit of American history but it is not a dry text. This book is a real page-turner, one that will illuminate your mind as surely as the Hatteras lighthouse on a frightening, dark sea. Like the mariners which once depended on the light to skirt a dangerous coast, after you finish reading this book, you will be grateful for the experience.