Round-the-World Atlas of Lighthouses

In this unusual journey to the most remote lighthouses on the planet, you will encounter not only the features of their architecture, internal structure, and technical equipment but also many fascinating stories related to the construction of lighthouses and their... keepers, to shipwrecks, and to mystical occurrences. This includes the tale of the blind lighthouse keeper above the Arctic Circle, of the fearless girl who came to the aid of shipwrecked sailors, of the ghost of a midshipman who appears at the lighthouse every night typing some warning on a typewriter, of a strange man who preferred to hide from everyone in a tower in the open sea… In these stories, the motives and creative horizons of Jules Verne, Edgar Allan Poe, Virginia Woolf, who spent her childhood in a lighthouse, Rudyard Kipling, Ray Bradbury, and other great writers striving to tell the world about loneliness, anxiety, bravery, and happiness converge.
The text is accompanied by magnificent illustrations, nautical charts, and large-scale plans indicating the exact coordinates of the lighthouses and their technical characteristics - it provides a cross-section diagram of each lighthouse, its exact coordinates, and the parameters of the light signal, the engineer's name is given, the construction and commissioning time is indicated, whether the lighthouse is currently operational or abandoned, what is the height of its tower, the height of the light above sea level, the visibility range of the light, as well as many other interesting details.
"What you have before you is not just a book about lighthouses. It is a way to understand ourselves, reflected in the mirror of human nature, to ask the question of whether we are capable of living in solitude and how dependent we are on each other in the struggle for survival." (José Luis González Macías)