Lighthouses of New England

Although this book has short paragraphs discussing individual lighthouses, its strength is in its strong overview of general US lighthouse history with an emphasis on New England. Contains many good quality color photographs. I would recommend this book. My only criticism is that I want more indepth information about specific lights and locating that information requires considerable page flipping within this volume. For more detailed information about specific lights see the editions by Snow and D'Entremont.

When I received this book as a gift I expected that it would be another lovely book of New England photos to keep on the guest room bookshelf. I was pleasantly surprised to find myself caught up instead in the beautifully-written text. Who knew there were so many intriguing myths, legends, historical facts, and entertaining anecdotes about the people who built, populated, and even haunt New England lighthouses? This book turned out to be a terrific history lesson and an all-around great read.

This book is not only very informative, but full of wonderful photographs. It is an interesting read and lovely to look at.