Éditeurs
Langues
González Macías
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Sentinelles plantées sur leurs cailloux au bout du monde, les phares sont de fascinants monuments qui recèlent bien des secrets. Éclairant les eaux sombres des océans, ces vigies surveillent et protègent les bateaux de passage.L'auteur nous conte ici la construction de 34 phares et l'histoire de leurs gardiens, et dévoile les mystères qui planent encore sur ces lieux reculés.Magnifiquement illustré de cartes et plans, cet atlas est un voyage immobile autour du monde, depuis les caps les plus méridionaux de la Terre de Feu jusqu'aux hautes latitudes russes, en passant par les confins européens ou océaniens.
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Nouv.
A BRIEF ATLAS OF THE LIGHTHOUSES AT THE END OF THE WORLD
González Macías
- Picador uk
- 19 Octobre 2023
- 9781529087147
There is something beautiful and wild in the impossible architecture of lighthouses. They have been the homes and workplaces of men and women whose romantic guardianship has saved countless lives from cruel seas. Yet while that way of life fades away, as the lights go out and the buildings crumble, we still have their stories.
From a blind lighthouse keeper tending a light in the Arctic Circle, to an intrepid young girl saving ships from wreck at the foot of her father''s lighthouse, and the plight of the lighthouse crew cut off from society for forty days, this is a glorious book full of illuminating stories that will transport the reader to the world''s most isolated and inspiring lighthouses.
With over thirty tales that explore the depths to which we can sink and the heights to which we can soar as human beings, and accompanied by beautiful illustrations, nautical charts, maps, architectural plans and curious facts, A Brief Atlas of the Lighthouses at the End of the World is as full of wonder as the far flung lighthouses themselves.
Translated from Spanish by Daniel Hahn
