Author: T. Lindsay Baker
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 164
Book Description
Gives the history of lighthouses in the state of Texas as well as the life and work of the keepers and their families.
Lighthouses of Texas
Author: T. Lindsay Baker
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 164
Book Description
Gives the history of lighthouses in the state of Texas as well as the life and work of the keepers and their families.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 164
Book Description
Gives the history of lighthouses in the state of Texas as well as the life and work of the keepers and their families.
Lighthouses, Lightships, and the Gulf of Mexico
Author: David L. Cipra
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780963641212
Category : Lighthouses
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
ISBN 0963641212 LCCN 96072414.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780963641212
Category : Lighthouses
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
ISBN 0963641212 LCCN 96072414.
Lighthouses Short and Tall
Author: Mary Louise Clifford
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780963641298
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 48
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780963641298
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 48
Book Description
California Lighthouses
Author: Ray Jones
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780762700813
Category : Lighthouses
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Provides historical background and descriptive information on some of the most significant lighthouses on the California coastline.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780762700813
Category : Lighthouses
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Provides historical background and descriptive information on some of the most significant lighthouses on the California coastline.
Light List, Including Fog Signals, Atlantic and Gulf Coasts of the United States ....
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Aids to navigation
Languages : en
Pages : 974
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Aids to navigation
Languages : en
Pages : 974
Book Description
Light List, Including Fog Signals, Atlantic and Gulf Coasts of the United States ...
Author: United States. Bureau of Light-Houses
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Beacons
Languages : en
Pages : 1972
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Beacons
Languages : en
Pages : 1972
Book Description
Fishing Yesterday's Gulf Coast
Author: Barney Farley
Publisher: Texas A&M University Press
ISBN: 1603440461
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 170
Book Description
Renowned fishing guide Barney Farley worked the Texas coastal waters out of Port Aransas for more than half a century. In these stories and reflections, Farley imparts a lifetime of knowledge about fish_silver trout, sand trout, speckled trout, redfish, ling, catfish, jack, kingfish, you name it_and gives advice about how to fish, where to fish, and when to fish. Perhaps no one could chronicle the changes in sport and commercial fishing along the Central Texas Coast more ably and more passionately than Farley. When he came to Texas in 1910, he reported that he could get in a rowboat and using only a push pole, make his way "to the fishing grounds and catch a hundred pounds or more of trout and redfish" in a few hours. A couple of years later, the shrimp trawlers arrived. As they plied the Gulf in increasing numbers, they depleted the shrimp populations in the bays, and Farley watched the fish move farther and farther offshore, following their ever more elusive food source. From his perspective in the mid1960s, Farley was not satisfied simply to lament the disappearance of onceabundant species. He also strongly voiced his views on the need for conservation. Many of the problems he identified are still with us, and some of the solutions he prescribed have since been adopted. This book is both an appealing reminiscence and a cautionary tale. Anyone who cares about fishing and the health of the Gulf's waters will find an authoritative and completely engaging voice in Barney Farley.
Publisher: Texas A&M University Press
ISBN: 1603440461
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 170
Book Description
Renowned fishing guide Barney Farley worked the Texas coastal waters out of Port Aransas for more than half a century. In these stories and reflections, Farley imparts a lifetime of knowledge about fish_silver trout, sand trout, speckled trout, redfish, ling, catfish, jack, kingfish, you name it_and gives advice about how to fish, where to fish, and when to fish. Perhaps no one could chronicle the changes in sport and commercial fishing along the Central Texas Coast more ably and more passionately than Farley. When he came to Texas in 1910, he reported that he could get in a rowboat and using only a push pole, make his way "to the fishing grounds and catch a hundred pounds or more of trout and redfish" in a few hours. A couple of years later, the shrimp trawlers arrived. As they plied the Gulf in increasing numbers, they depleted the shrimp populations in the bays, and Farley watched the fish move farther and farther offshore, following their ever more elusive food source. From his perspective in the mid1960s, Farley was not satisfied simply to lament the disappearance of onceabundant species. He also strongly voiced his views on the need for conservation. Many of the problems he identified are still with us, and some of the solutions he prescribed have since been adopted. This book is both an appealing reminiscence and a cautionary tale. Anyone who cares about fishing and the health of the Gulf's waters will find an authoritative and completely engaging voice in Barney Farley.
Haunted Lighthouses
Author: Ray Jones
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 0762766425
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 257
Book Description
Lighthouses and ghosts are two popular passions. Melded together by master storyteller and lighthouse expert Ray Jones, these tales of spirited lights are guaranteed to grab the attention of all readers. As an added bonus, practical information is given for those who wish to visit the featured lighthouses for themselves . . . if they dare.
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 0762766425
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 257
Book Description
Lighthouses and ghosts are two popular passions. Melded together by master storyteller and lighthouse expert Ray Jones, these tales of spirited lights are guaranteed to grab the attention of all readers. As an added bonus, practical information is given for those who wish to visit the featured lighthouses for themselves . . . if they dare.
Lights of the Inside Passage
Author: Donald Graham
Publisher: Madeira Park, B.C. : Harbour Publishing Company
ISBN: 9780920080856
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 269
Book Description
The lighthouses of the inside passage, many of them built to guide prospectors on their way to the Klondike, stretch from sheltered stations on the Gulf Islands to stark, storm-swept Triple Island and Langara, south of Alaska. Feel the fury of destructive North Pacific gales and tidal waves that ravage the coast; ponder the unsolved murder of Addenbrooke's keeper, and the mysterious disappearances on Egg Island; witness the insanity caused by isolation -and enjoy the contentment and peace that many keepers found on their solitary stations. Don Graham, keeper at Vancouver's Point Atkinson light, tells the stories of individual lighthouses, then brings the history of lightkeepers in general into the present. The century-old tradition of service that has insured the safety of West Coast mariners and ships is currently threatened by automation, and Graham presents a persua-sive case against unmanning the lights through his account of the dedication and endurance of pioneer keepers.
Publisher: Madeira Park, B.C. : Harbour Publishing Company
ISBN: 9780920080856
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 269
Book Description
The lighthouses of the inside passage, many of them built to guide prospectors on their way to the Klondike, stretch from sheltered stations on the Gulf Islands to stark, storm-swept Triple Island and Langara, south of Alaska. Feel the fury of destructive North Pacific gales and tidal waves that ravage the coast; ponder the unsolved murder of Addenbrooke's keeper, and the mysterious disappearances on Egg Island; witness the insanity caused by isolation -and enjoy the contentment and peace that many keepers found on their solitary stations. Don Graham, keeper at Vancouver's Point Atkinson light, tells the stories of individual lighthouses, then brings the history of lightkeepers in general into the present. The century-old tradition of service that has insured the safety of West Coast mariners and ships is currently threatened by automation, and Graham presents a persua-sive case against unmanning the lights through his account of the dedication and endurance of pioneer keepers.
America's Lighthouses
Author: Francis Ross Holland
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 9780486255767
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 246
Book Description
A history of the lighthouse which examines its technical development in the United States
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 9780486255767
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 246
Book Description
A history of the lighthouse which examines its technical development in the United States