Sentinel of the Seas: Life and Death at the Most Dangerous Lighthouse Ever Built
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| Rating | : | 4.74 (790 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0806528427 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 288 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-03-15 |
| Language | : | English |
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The result took ten years to construct and cost as much as twenty conventional lighthouses. Based on five years of research drawing on the National Archives, original journals, and personal interviews, Sentinel of the Seas is the first book to capture the tumultuous history of this astounding engineering feat and the lives that have been influenced by it. This is one of the most hazardous reefs off the West Coast. But the beast claimed its greatest victim in 1865 when the side-wheel steamer S.S. In Sentinel of the Seas, Dennis M. Brother Jonathan sank on one of the rocks with the loss of 225 souls, inspiring an extraordinary effort to make the waters safe. Con
An other great book from Dennis Powers Really enjoyed this book, Keeps you interested and the tale of building St. George Lighthouse is amazing. A harrowing tale of perseverance for ten years in all kinds of weather.Also included is Lighthouse keepers at other lighthouses and a chaper on Women Lighhouse keepers. Mr Powers really does his homework when he writes his books and I have enjoyed working with him on t. Audrey said Just imagine. I loved this book! Dennis Powers's "Sentinel of the Seas" is thoroughly captivating. Each chapter is filled with fascinating descriptions of the men---and there were heroic women too---who risked everything in order to secure the west coast. There are tales of immigrants who could only find work that no one else wanted, so those men took brutally hard jobs. Powers ties tog. "This is great adventure reading, brilliantly written." according to Reader Views. Reviewed by Richard R. Blake for Reader Views (5/07)"Sentinel of the Seas" reads like a novel. Dennis Powers has written another classic masterpiece which chronicles man battling the sea. As in his earlier works "Treasure Ship" and "The Raging Sea," Powers has thoroughly researched his work. He spent five years in preparation, searching archives, original journals, dairies
From Publishers Weekly One of the most rugged expanses in the continental U.S., the coast of northern California and Oregon saw frequent shipping disasters in the 19th century, before Congress ordered the construction of lighthouses on such dangerous promontories as Heceta Head, Cape Mendocino and a seaward-trending pile of rocks called St. Without any maps to illustrate it, however, readers will need an atlas to follow the movement of men and ships up and down the coast. Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. George Reef. . Later chapters describing lighthouse life prove less problematic; lighthouse keepers were fascinating, courageous characters (and included a good number of women) who not only kept lights burning