Umbrella Guide to California Lighthouses

by Sharlene Nelson and Ted Nelson

Early mariners found sailing California's often forbidding coast to be a risky adventure until after 1954, when the first of more than 40 lighthouse stations was built to mark 1,200 miles of... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0945397216
• ISBN13: 9780945397212
• Release Date: February 1993
• Publisher: Graphic Arts Books
• Length: 180 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.5" x 8.5"

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.