Guiding Lights: The Design & Development of the British Lightship from 1732

by Anthony Lane

This is the story of the design and development of British Lightvessels that have protected the coast since 1732, and the great variety of innovative engineering involved. Largely unknown to the general public, this study brings together information and photographs not previously published. A list of British and Irish lightvessel stations is included.

208 pages, Paperback

First published December 1, 2001

About the author

Anthony Lane has been a film critic for The New Yorker since 1993. Lane became the deputy literary editor of The Independent, in London, in 1989, and, a year later, a film critic for The Independent on Sunday.

In 2001, Lane’s reviews were awarded the National Magazine Award for Reviews and Criticism. His writings for The New Yorker are collected in the book “Nobody’s Perfect.”

Lane lives in Cambridge, England.

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