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Dust Jacket has some edge and corner wear, some scuffing, but still intact.

Dust Jacket has some edge and corner wear, some scuffing, but still intact. Front and back covers have light wear to edges and corners. Spine intact, some wear. Binding is intact. Pages are generally clean with minor edge or corner wear. Clearly a pre-owned and used copy. Firefly Bookstore sells items online and in our store front. We try to add images and descriptions when we can, but if you need additional information or photos of the books we list, please contact us.

Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. With dust jacket. 278 p. Contains: Illustrations. Audience: General/trade.

Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. With dust jacket. 278 p. Contains: Illustrations. Audience: General/trade.

Size: 8x5x1;

Size: 8x5x1;

xxiv, [2], 278 pages. Genealogical table. Map. Illustrations. Bibliography.

xxiv, [2], 278 pages. Genealogical table. Map. Illustrations. Bibliography. Index. Minor damp staining noted at bottom of book toward the back. Minor rippling at top of several back pages. Bella Bathurst is a fiction and non-fiction writer, and photographer, born in London and living in Scotland. Her journalism has also appeared in a variety of major publications, including the Washington Post and the Sunday Times. Her first published book was The Lighthouse Stevensons (1999), an account of the construction of the Scottish lighthouses by the ancestors of Robert Louis Stevenson, and named one of the List Magazine's '100 Best Scottish Books of all time'. Her second book was a novel, Special (2002), the story of a group of semi-feral teenage girls; and her most recent books include The Wreckers (2005), a history of shipwrecking and maritime skullduggery around the coast of Britain and The Bicycle Book (2011), a journey through cycling's best stories and strangest incarnations. For centuries mariners faced natural shipwreck and infamous wreckers around the hazardous and stormy coasts of Scotland, added to which press gangs and privateers were also constant threats. In 1786 the Northern Lighthouse Trust was established and a few years later Robert Stevenson was appointed Chief Engineer. Thus began almost two centuries of family connection which saw the construction of the Bell Rock light, Skerryvore, Muckle Flugga, and in all, ninety-seven lights dotted around the Scottish coast in addition to harbors, roads, bridges and railways. Robert Louis Stevenson also trained as an engineer but was to find his fame in literature. The author traces the remarkable careers of the Stevensons from the first Scottish lights to the last of their keepers. This is the biography of an extraordinary family; a story of high endeavor and remarkable ingenuity, and of men pushed to the limit and beyond. Robert Louis Stevenson may have been the most famous of the Stevensons but he was not the most productive. All four generations of the Lighthouse Stevensons devoted themselves to the seemingly impossible task of illuminating the dangerous seas around Scotland. This is the story of their visionary quest and their astonishing feats as they battled terrifying conditions, personal demons and political pitfalls to light the seafarers' way.