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Title: Great Lakes Lighthouse Tales by Fredrick Stonehouse, Frederick Stonehouse, Fred Stonehouse, Various ISBN: 0-932212-99-9 Publisher: Avery Color Studios Pub. Date: 01 July, 1998 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $15.95

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Average Customer Rating: 4 (1 review)

Rating: 4
Summary: Well-researched and entertaining
Comment: This book is thoroughly enjoyable.
Frederick Stonehouse has obviously spent a great many hours researching the lighthouses, lightships, keeps and wrecks detailed in this book. He also has a great deal of affection for his subject. The book contains an encapsulated history of the lighthouse service at the beginning, which sets the historicval context of the tales that follow. These range from factual accounts from logs to anecdotal stories from survivors' relatives, taking in a lighthouse hymn on the way. The tales are sometimes a bit dry, and can seem like lists of ships wrecked and the places of wrecks, and Stonehouse's style sometimes seems amateurish. But this does not dampen his enthusiasm for the topic nor his knowledge. A great read.

I must mention the illustrations, which are a mixture of photographs, drawings, and diagrams. These have obviously been sought out with the utmost care by the author, another sign that he knows his subject. They would benefit from better reproduction as some seem smudged and details are blotchy on some. Another requirement (in the next edition please!) would be for five pages of the book to be used for maps of the great lakes showing the positions of all the lighthouses.

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