The Lighthouse Stevensons: The Extraordinary Story of the Building of the Scottish Lighthouses by the Ancestors of Robert Louis Stevenson by Bella Bathurst

Book Description

Secondhand. Very good condition. Minor wear to book corners and edges. Pages are sunned. Previous owner has stamped inside cover with bookplate stamp and has stuck a newspaper cutting to title page. The clipping relates to the Bathurst lightouse on Rottnest Island.

The Lighthouse Stevensons, all four generations of them, built every lighthouse around Scotland, were responsible for a slew of inventions in both construction and optics and achieved feats of engineering in conditions that would be forbidding even today. The same driven energy that Robert Louis Stevenson put into writing, his ancestors put into lighting the darkness of the seas. The Lighthouse Stevensons is a story of high endeavour, beautifully told; indeed, this is one of the most celebrated works of historical biography in recent memory.