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"The Wreckers: A Story of Killing Seas, False Lights, and Plundered Shipwrecks" by Bella Bathurst.
An amazing book about all those sailing ships that were wrecked on English coasts and the questionable early days of what is now the Royal National Lifeboat Institution.

Originally Posted by tdw

A particularly fascinating piece of trivia (at least to a brain dead wombat) is the fact that Robert Louis Stevenson's family were the greatest builders of lighthouses of their age.

The Lighthouse Stevensons - Bella Bathurst


Thoroughly readable, well researched it's amazing that anyone could create such a rivetting read about building lighthouses. I guess many of us would consider an old lighthouse as a dream home for a retired sailor, certainly I would and it is that which makes such a tale so irresistable. Well worth the price of admission.