Great American Lighthouses

Informationen zum Autor Francis Ross Holland Jr. was an American historian. He is best remembered today for his books on American lighthouses. Holland was born in Savannah, Georgia. He graduated from Georgia State University in 1949; in 1958 he received a master's degree in history from the University of Texas at Austin. Klappentext This year marks the 200th anniversary of the founding of the U.S. Lighthouse Service, and Great American Lighthouses is a bicentennial salute to the Zusammenfassung Lighthouses are increasingly endangered by modernization and abandonment. Simple steel skeletons are replacing the picturesque! conical towers! squat screwpiles and Cape Cod styles so much a part of America's maritime history. Inhaltsverzeichnis THE LIGHTHOUSES. New England. Mid-Atlantic. Southeast. Gulf of Mexico. Great Lakes. West. Epilogue: Lost Lights and Losing Battles. Bibliography. Index.

Product details

• Authors: Holland, F Ross Holland, F. Ross Holland, F.ross Holland, Fr Holland, Holland F. Ross
• Assisted by: George J. Mitchell (Foreword)
• Publisher: Wiley, John and Sons Ltd
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 12.09.1989
• EAN: 9780471143871
• ISBN: 978-0-471-14387-1
• No. of pages: 352
• Series: Great American Places; Great American Places Series
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Architecture; Social sciences, law, business > Business > Individual industrial sectors, branches; USA, Architecture, ARCHITECTURE / General, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Industries / Transportation, United States of America, USA, Transport industries, Shipping industries