Stargazing: Memoirs of a Young Lighthouse Keeper (Paperback)
Peter Hill (author)- In stock online
Publisher: Canongate Books Ltd
ISBN: 9781841954998
Number of pages: 336
Weight: 226 g
Dimensions: 198 x 129 x 20 mm
Edition: Main
MEDIA REVIEWS
Both an elegy to an extinct way of life and a tribute to the spirit and expertise of the men who embodied this romance of sea and sky. * * The Observer * *
Few of these books, however, are as wistfully evocative or as thoughtful as Hill's Stargazing. * * The Independent * *
A passionate account and a fine commemoration of the first profession ever to be made totally redundant. -- Bella Bathurst, author of "The Lighthouse Stevensons"
excellent * * The Scotsman Magazine * *
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