The Last Lighthouse Keeper

Cover Type: Softcover
Book Condition: Fine
Jacket Condition: None Issued
Publisher: Allen & Unwin
Publisher Place: Sydney
Publisher Year: 2020
Edition: First Edition

Description: 339 pages. Book appears to have hardly been read and is in Fine condition throughout. The only exception are a few light age markings on the inside page.

Publishers Description: A beautiful memoir from John Cook, one of Tasmanias last kerosene lighthouse keepers. A story about madness and wilderness, shining a light onto the vicissitudes of love and nature. I loved the life of the island, because I knew my body was more alive than those on the mainland. People asked how we stood the isolation and boredom, but in some ways, it was more stimulating to have your senses turned up to the top. In Tasmania, John Cook is known as The Keeper of the Flame. As one of Australias longest-serving lighthouse keepers, John spent 26 years tending Tasmanias well-known kerosene lights at Tasman Island, Bruny Island, Eddystone Point and Maatsuyker Island. From sleepless nights keeping the lights alive, battling the wind and sea as they ripped at gutters and flooded stores, raising a joey, tending sheep and keeping ducks and chickens, the life of a keeper was one of unexpected joy and heartbreak. But for John, nothing was more heartbreaking than the introduction of electric lights, and the lighthouses that were left empty forever. Evocatively told, The Last Lighthouse Keeper is a love story between a man and a dying way of life, as well as a celebration of wilderness and solitude.

ISBN: 9781760875381