The Lighthouse Keepers
- ISBN-10
- 064618458X
- ISBN-13
- 9780646184586
- Category
- Lighthouse keepers
- Pages
- 282
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1994
- Author
- Stuart Buchanan
Description
Illustrated personal account of work and life on a Queensland light station - most of which are now unstaffed. Includes a list of 1200 Queensland light-keepers from 1857 to 1994 and the first issue of instructions to light-keepers issued in 1917. The author joined the Commonwealth lighthouse service in 1973 and worked with his wife as light-keepers along the Queensland coast until the destaffing of all Australian lighthouses began in 1982.
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- 2008-10-01
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- Paperback
- Harry N. Abrams
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