Author: Admont G. Clark

Publisher/Date: On Cape 2005

ISBN: 9780975850268

Format/Condition: New hardcover book with dust jacket is in very good condition, but has a light musty odor. 244 pages, map endpapers, illustrated

Description: In November 1789 a storm dumped six feet of snow on Cape Cod, driving seven vessels ashore and leaving no survivors, while the Great October Gale of 1841 destroyed most of a fishing fleet, with 20 men lost. “Small wonder, then,” writes Admont G. Clark, “that Cape Cod and the islands nearby were studded with lighthouses: eighteen on Cape Cod, three on Nantucket, five on Martha’s Vineyard.” Studded with historic black and white photos and other illustrations, this account includes physical facts about the area’s lighthouses but focuses on the people who lived and worked in them, and the extraordinary deeds that they were called upon to perform.