legendary lighthouses

Paralleling the highly praised PBS travel documentary series “Legendary Lighthouses”, this companion book celebrates America’s treasured coastal beacons and explores the nature of our love for them. From Maine to Big Sur, Key West to Lake Superior, this book takes you on location to some of the most beautiful places in America and through the doors of these grand old sentinels. You’ll meet dozens of delightful characters who, in one way or another, are intimately involved with lighthouses and find out what they have to say about the lighthouses in their lives. You’ll also read dramatic stories filled with daring rescues and tragedy, devotion and self-sacrifice. Lavishly illustrated with color photographs, many of them taken during filming of the television series, this book is a modern tribute not only to our rich lighthouse heritage, but also to the ideas and impulses that lighthouses continue to embody and inspire.