description: 1999 HarperCollins trade paperback, Bella Bathurst (Bicycle Book). A unique account of how a single family, the Stevensons, designed and built lighthouses along the Scottish Coast, notorious for shipwrecks, in the 18th and 19th Centuries. They fought foul weather, jagged coastlines and some opposition to build these lighthouses in the most remote and in hospitable locations on the Scottish coast and reefs. - Amazon
language: English
title: The Lighthouse Stevensons: The Extraordinary Story of the Building of the Scottish Lighthouses by the Ancestors of Robert Louis Stevenson
titlecomplete: The Lighthouse Stevensons: The Extraordinary Story of the Building of the Scottish Lighthouses by the Ancestors of Robert Louis Stevenson
characters: Robert Stevenson, Thomas Stevenson
genres: Historical, History, Scotland, Biography, Science, Architecture, Engineering, Technology, Maritime, Nonfiction
ratings_count: 630
places: Scotland
awards: awardedAt: 915177600000
name: Guardian First Book Award, awardedAt: 946713600000
name: Somerset Maugham Award
publisher: Harper Collins