{"product_id":"coffee-table-book-of-lighthouses-paperback","title":"Coffee Table Book of: Lighthouses (Paperback)","description":"\u003cp\u003eCoffee Table Book of: Lighthouses is a large-format coffee table book about lighthouses, printed edge to edge in colour, one picture to a page and the widest carried across two. Most show a tower on its coast, from sea rock to harbour pier, by day and by night; others go up into the lantern and inside the tower.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt opens with towers of stone and brick: a squat granite tower on a sea-washed rock, a slender tower of bare red brick, twin white towers well apart on one headland, and an old beacon tower with an iron fire basket on top.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThen the daymarks: red and white bands above the marram grass of the dunes, a red and white spiral, black and white checks on a low rocky islet, and a solid stone cone with no lantern at all.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThen inside the tower: a stone spiral stair seen from below, a bronze door set high in a granite wall, a round room with curved wooden bunks, and the lamplit watch room. Then the buildings around it: whitewashed cottages in a walled yard, a fog signal house with two great black horns, a plain bronze fog bell, and stone landing steps cut into the rock.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThen rocks, islands and harbours: a lighthouse on a tidal island at the end of a causeway of rock and seaweed, low, rounded pink granite islands, a white tower on black volcanic rock, a red lighthouse at the end of a long stone breakwater, and a pier light on a frozen lake, thick with ice.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThen dusk and night: a lit lamp under a sky fading from rose to deep blue, two long pale beams through thin sea mist, a silver path of moonlight across a calm sea, and green curtains of the northern lights.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eToward the end, the lighthouse year: pink thrift on a cliff top, a headland purple with heather, a bare island under a low gold sun on the sea horizon, a flock of small birds passing low over a tower on a headland of rust-brown bracken, a lighthouse and its cottages under fresh snow, and sea smoke rising from dark open water.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eShort notes run through the book. They are about lighthouses and their coasts rather than about the pictures: why many towers are painted in bands, stripes or checks, why towers on low, flat coasts were built so tall, why the bunks in a sea-rock lighthouse were built curved, and how the keepers kept the lamp burning from sunset to sunrise, every night of the year.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePrinted in full colour on heavy 150gsm coated paper at 216 x 279 mm (8.5 x 11 inches), as a paperback.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Cedar Pine Editions","offers":[{"title":"Perfect Bound","offer_id":68148167377200,"sku":"9671456004273","price":14.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0262\/2357\/5085\/files\/9671456004273.jpg?v=1792626773","url":"https:\/\/www.thegreatbritishbookshop.co.uk\/products\/coffee-table-book-of-lighthouses-paperback","provider":"The Great British Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}