Sentinels in the Stream: Lighthouses of the St. Lawrence River

First of all, I love the format of this book - each of the 43 lighthouses has a full-page color photo, facing the text, which is mostly quite informative. Also the smaller size of the book makes it very suitable as a gift to any lighthouse aficionado. Anybody interested in the early history of Canada would enjoy getting/reading this as much as I have. While I'd like to give it 5 stars, I found in some cases the photos were overly artistic or at least, not truly a detailed portrait of what I wanted to see. One such example is the lighthouse at Bassin from 1871, described as "most beautiful" and "unusual" in the text. The very colorful photo is mostly of the cliff, with a boat in the foreground, and the very distant lighthouse in the diagonal opposite corner. Composition- wise, it's no doubt a postcard-worthy image ...