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Like the companion book to the first PBS Legendary Lighthouses series, this lavishly illustrated volume celebrates America's treasured coastal beacons and explores the nature of our love for them. From Honolulu to the Aleutian Islands, Galveston to Lake Ontario, it takes you on location to some of the most beautiful places in America and through the doors of the beloved old towers that for generations have guarded our shores. Paralleling the second, all-new PBS series, this book picks up where the first one ended and completes the dramatic story of America's lighthouses.Meet dozens of delightful characters -- former lighthouse keepers, children of keepers, authors and historians with a passionate story to tell, local people working to preserve lighthouses, and even lighthouse B&B hosts -- and find out what they have to say about the lighthouses in their lives. Read stories of solitude, heroism, daring rescues, unpredictable and deadly storms, and fascinating history. Travel to the enchanting beaches of Hawaii, the treacherous shores of the Gulf of Mexico's "Hurricane Alley", the surprising beauty and magnitude of the Eastern Great Lakes, and the rugged and dangerous coast of Alaska.Each chapter is filled with stunning color photographs taken during filming of the television series and offering glimpses of these spectacular locations, often from vantage points that are not commonly accessible. These images, together with the fascinating stories and colorful personalities, bring each location to life and teach us what makes these isolated stretches of coastline so compelling and unique.
