The Lighthouses of the Chesapeake

by Robert de Gast and Professor Robert De Gast

Book Overview

'The illustrations say it all. Through his camera's eye you really 'see' each lighthouse. Not just candid shots of 'high buildings' with lights on top, but close-ups of the hand-hewn stone stairs of Old Point Comfort Lighthouse; the wide, shelf-like handrail of the Baltimore Lighthouse; the barnacles on the No Point Light; the bronze caster that rotated the light at Sandy Point; even the wooden privy of the front light of the Craghill Channel Range.'...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0801815487
• ISBN13: 9780801815485
• Release Date: November 1973
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Length: 176 Pages
• Weight: 1.95 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Buy it for the photography

Not the most complete reference book on the subject, but the distinctive black-and-white phototography is excellent. A very different visual treatment than you'll find in most other books about Chesapeake Bay lighthouses.