The Lighthouse Keepers
Buchanan Stuart
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Cover Type: Softcover
Book Condition: Fine
Jacket Condition: None Issued
Publisher: Coral Coast Publications
Publisher Place: Samford
Publisher Year: 1997
Edition: Reprint
Description: 268 pages. Book appears to have hardly been read and is in Fine condition throughout.
Publishers Description: Illustrated personal account of work and life on a Queensland light station - most of which are now unstaffed. Includes a list of 1200 Queensland light-keepers from 1857 to 1994 and the first issue of instructions to light-keepers issued in 1917. The author joined the Commonwealth lighthouse service in 1973 and worked with his wife as light-keepers along the Queensland coast until the destaffing of all Australian lighthouses began in 1982.
ISBN: 9780646184586
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