Lighthouse Keeper's Wife
Author | : Constance Scovill Small |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 234 |
Release | : 1986 |
Genre | : Lighthouse keepers |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Constance Scovill Small |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 234 |
Release | : 1986 |
Genre | : Lighthouse keepers |
ISBN | : |
Author | : M.L. Stedman |
Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 339 |
Release | : 2012 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1451681755 |
A cloth bag containing ten copies of the title.
Author | : Karen Viggers |
Publisher | : Allen & Unwin |
Total Pages | : 401 |
Release | : 2012 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1743310390 |
Elderly and in poor health, Mary fulfils her wish to herself to live out her last days on Bruny Island with only her regrets and memories for company. A long time ago, her late husband was the lighthousekeeper on Bruny, and she'd raised a family on the wild windswept island, until terrible circumstances forced them back to civilisation. The long-buried secret that has haunted her for decades now threatens to break free and she is hoping to banish it once and for all before her time is up.
Author | : Jeanette Aplin |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 228 |
Release | : 2001-04-09 |
Genre | : Lighthouse keepers |
ISBN | : 9780908561872 |
THE LIGHTHOUSE KEEPER'S WIFE is a classic New Zealand story of life on remote Stephens Island, famous for its wild life and stronghold of the pre-historic tuatara. Above all, this is a human story of self-discovery and the lighthouse community, far away from the everyday world. Jeanette Aplin writes with unusual candour, revealing her struggles to live up to her high ideals, and 'to be a good, true, lighthouse keeper's wife.' Her book is funny, suspenseful, surprising. As she brings alive a way of life now gone forever, she draws even the most home-bound reader into becoming part of the island's rare magic. Jeanette Aplin now lives with her husband Pip on D'Urville Island ... No electricity in the house, no road to the door.
Author | : Charles J. Fourie |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 55 |
Release | : 2015 |
Genre | : Robben Island (South Africa) |
ISBN | : 9781775898306 |
Author | : Ronda Armitage |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2022-01-08 |
Genre | : Food |
ISBN | : 9780702318627 |
Once there was a lighthouse keeper called Mr Grinling... Mr Grinling LOVES his food, but - oh no! - he's not the only one who likes a snack and the local seagulls have started stealing Mrs Grinling's tasty treats...! Can Mr and Mrs Grinling come up with a cunning plan to keep those pesky seagulls away?
Author | : Shona Riddell |
Publisher | : Exisle Publishing |
Total Pages | : 255 |
Release | : 2020-10-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1775594610 |
Women have a long history of keeping the lights burning, from tending ancient altar flames or bonfires to modern-day lighthouse keeping. Yet most of their stories are little-known. Guiding Lights includes true stories from around the world, chronicling the lives of the extraordinary women who mind the world’s storm-battered towers. From Hannah Sutton and her partner Grant, the two caretakers living alone on Tasmania’s wild Maatsuyker Island, to Karen Zacharuk, the keeper in charge of Cape Beale on Canada’s Vancouver Island, where bears, cougars and wolves roam, the lives of lighthouse women are not for the faint of heart. Stunning photographs from throughout history accompany accounts of the dramatic torching of Puysegur Point, one of NZ’s most inhospitable lighthouses; ‘haunted’ lighthouses in across the US and their tragic tales; lighthouse accidents and emergencies around the world; and two of the world’s most legendary lighthouse women: Ida Lewis (US) and Grace Darling (UK), who risked their lives to save others. The book also explores our dual perception of lighthouses: are they comforting and romantic beacons symbolizing hope and trust, or storm-lashed and forbidding towers with echoes of lonely, mad keepers? Whatever our perception, stories of women’s courage and dedication in minding the lights — then and now — continue to capture our imagination and inspire.
Author | : Hazel Gaynor |
Publisher | : HarperCollins |
Total Pages | : 416 |
Release | : 2018-10-09 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 006269863X |
From The New York Times bestselling author of The Girl Who Came Home comes a historical novel inspired by true events, and the extraordinary female lighthouse keepers of the past two hundred years. “They call me a heroine, but I am not deserving of such accolades. I am just an ordinary young woman who did her duty.” 1838: Northumberland, England. Longstone Lighthouse on the Farne Islands has been Grace Darling’s home for all of her twenty-two years. When she and her father rescue shipwreck survivors in a furious storm, Grace becomes celebrated throughout England, the subject of poems, ballads, and plays. But far more precious than her unsought fame is the friendship that develops between Grace and a visiting artist. Just as George Emmerson captures Grace with his brushes, she in turn captures his heart. 1938: Newport, Rhode Island. Nineteen-years-old and pregnant, Matilda Emmerson has been sent away from Ireland in disgrace. She is to stay with Harriet, a reclusive relative and assistant lighthouse keeper, until her baby is born. A discarded, half-finished portrait opens a window into Matilda’s family history. As a deadly hurricane approaches, two women, living a century apart, will be linked forever by their instinctive acts of courage and love.
Author | : Marguerite Poland |
Publisher | : Penguin Random House South Africa |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 2014-09-30 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0143531514 |
When lighthouse keeper Hannes Harker is posted to a remote island with his young wife, he discovers something long-hidden in the tower that causes him to lose his footing and fall. Seriously injured, Hannes is evacuated to hospital and nursed back to health by Sister Rika, to whom he haltingly tells the story of his life: of his mother's mysterious death, of his wild young wife, Aletta, and of the desolate island inhabited only by the lighthouse keepers and guano workers - two communities confined together, yet rigidly separated in one of the bleakest places on earth. With the arrival of a figure from Aletta's past, her own secrets erupt into the present, just as the simmering tensions and injustices endured for so long by the guano workers erupt into a single, shocking act of violence. Written in the exquisite, haunting prose for which Marguerite Poland is renowned, The Keeper is the story of two generations of lighthouse keepers - men obsessed by their duty to the light - and the wives who accompany them into a life of frightening isolation. The Keeper is a novel about the power of secrets, the power of love, and the power of stories.
Author | : James Michael Pratt |
Publisher | : Macmillan |
Total Pages | : 324 |
Release | : 2001-02-15 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9780312974695 |
Orphaned at the age 10, Peter O'Banyon goes to live with his Uncle Billie, the keeper of the Port Hope Island Lighthouse in Massachusetts. There, Peter learns an astonishing truth of Billie's past, and the power of love. Through the years, WW II rocks his faith, and he returns to his young bride and to tragedy. In the final days of his own life, Peter needs to pass on the secrets to his own daughter. But to do it may take a miracle. Martin's Press.