A Brief Atlas of the Lighthouses at the End of the World
19 October 2023Imprint: Picador
Synopsis
A beautifully illustrated selection of stories about the lighthouses and their guardians found in some of the most remote places on earth.
A Financial Times Travel Book of the Year 2023
'Illuminating' - The Observer
There is something beautiful and wild in the impossible architecture of lighthouses. They have been the homes and workplaces of men and women whose romantic guardianship has saved...
Details
19 October 2023224 pages
9781529087154Imprint: Picador
Reviews
One of those books that seems made for gifting, it is a beautifully illustrated guide to some of the globe’s remotest spots with stories and vignettes from lighthouses that are, in themselves, miracles of construction and perseverance and monuments to the fundamental goodness of human beings.The New European
