The Global Atlas of Lighthouses

In this unusual journey to the most remote lighthouses on the planet, you will learn not only about the features of their architecture, internal structure, and technical equipment, but also about many fascinating stories related to the construction of lighthouses and their keepers, shipwrecks, and mysterious incidents. This includes the tale of a blind lighthouse keeper beyond the Arctic Circle, a fearless girl who came to the aid of distressed sailors, the ghost of a midshipman who appears at the lighthouse every night typing out a warning on a typewriter, and a strange man who chose to hide from everyone in a tower in the open sea… In these stories, the themes 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 converge, all of whom sought to tell the world about loneliness, anxiety, courage, and happiness.
The text is accompanied by magnificent illustrations, nautical charts, and scale plans indicating the exact coordinates of the lighthouses and their technical specifications—a diagram of each lighthouse in cross-section is provided, along with its exact coordinates and light signal parameters, the name of the engineer, the time of construction and commissioning, whether the lighthouse is currently operational or abandoned, the height of its tower, the height of the light above sea level, the visibility distance of the light, as well as many other interesting facts.
"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 can live in solitude and how much we depend on each other in the struggle for survival." (Jose Luis Gonzalez Macias)