Seashaken Houses by Tom Nancollas

30/05/2019 8h 26min
Seashaken Houses by Tom Nancollas

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Title: Seashaken Houses
Author: Tom Nancollas
Narrator: David Monteath
Format: mp3
Length: 8 hrs and 26 mins
Release date: 05-30-19
Ratings: 4.5 out of 5 stars, 14 ratings
Genres: Architecture
Publisher's Summary:
Lighthouses are striking totems of our relationship to the sea. For many, they encapsulate a romantic vision of solitary homes amongst the waves, but their original purpose is much more utilitarian than that. Still today we depend upon their guiding lights for the safe passage of ships. Nowhere is this truer than in the rock lighthouses of Great Britain and Ireland, a ring of 19 towers built between 1811-1905, so called because they were constructed on desolate rock formations in the middle of the sea, and made of granite to withstand the power of its waves.