{"product_id":"9781846149382","title":"Seashaken Houses : A Lighthouse History from Eddystone to Fastnet","description":"\u003cp\u003eAuthor(s): Nancollas, Tom, \u003cbr\u003e Binding: Paperback, \u003cbr\u003e Date of Publication: 01\/08\/2019,\u003cbr\u003e Pagination: 256 pages,\u003cbr\u003e Series: N\/A, \u003cbr\u003eImprint: Penguin Books Ltd,\u003cbr\u003e Published By: Penguin Books Ltd,\u003cbr\u003e Book Classification: Great Britain, Sea life \u0026amp; the seashore, British \u0026amp; Irish history \u003cbr\u003e ISBN13\\EAN\\SKU: 9781846149382\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"strike\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eDescription:\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"productDescription\"\u003eAn enthralling history of Britain's rock lighthouses, and the people who built and inhabited them.\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"productDescription\"\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"productDescription\"\u003eLighthouses are enduring monuments to our relationship with the sea. They encapsulate a romantic vision of solitary homes amongst the waves, but their original purpose was much more noble, conceived as navigational gifts for the safety of all. Still today, we depend upon their guiding lights for the safe passage of ships.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNowhere is this truer than in the rock lighthouses of Great Britain and Ireland: twenty towers built between 1811 and 1904, so-called because they were constructed on desolate, slippery rock formations in the middle of the sea, rising, mirage-like, straight out of the waves, with lights shining at the their summits.\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"productDescription\"\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"productDescription\"\u003eSeashaken Houses is a lyrical exploration of these magnificent, isolated sentinels, the ingenuity of those who conceived them, the people who risked their lives building and rebuilding them, those that inhabited their circular rooms, and the ways in which we value emblems of our history in a changing world.\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Winstones","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":35022451277977,"sku":"9781846149382","price":10.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0423\/0240\/6809\/products\/9781846149382_63d08ef8-ca6a-4721-bf61-98ab605bd8e7.jpg?v=1601401283","url":"https:\/\/winstonebooks.pro\/products\/9781846149382","provider":"Winstone's Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}