The Lighthouse Stevensons. Bella Bathurst

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      This eBook first published in Great Britain by William Collins in 2020

      Copyright © Bella Bathurst 1999; 2020

      Cover photograph © Northern Lighthouse Board

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      Source ISBN: 9780007204434

      Ebook Edition © November 2009 ISBN: 9780007358977

      Version: 2020-07-29

       To my mother, and to Lucy and Flora.

      There are spaces still to be filled before the map is completed – though these days it’s only in the explored territories that men write, sadly, Here live monsters.

      NORMAN MCCAIG, Old Maps and New

      Table of Contents

       Cover Page

       Title Page

Copyright

       Dedication

       Epigraph

       Map

Preface

       Foreword

Introduction

One Yarmouth

Two Northern Lights

       Three Eddystone

       Four The Bell Rock

       Five Edinburgh

       Six Skerryvore

       Seven Muckle Flugga

       Eight Dhu Heartach

       Nine The Keepers

       Ten Epilogue

       Bibliography

       Index

       Acknowledgements

       About the Author

       Praise

       Previously Published List

       About the Publisher

       PREFACE

      This is not – nor was it ever intended to be – a definitive biography of the Lighthouse Stevensons. When I began research in January 1996, I realised that any attempt to write a comprehensive biography of all four generations of the Stevensons would be both futile and, given the range and technicality of their work, probably quite wearing as well. And yet to write the history of just one of their lives would be to leave an incomplete picture. The Stevensons were, in the best and worst of senses, a family business and are perhaps most easily understood СКАЧАТЬ