num_pages: 285
description: Peaceful, lonely and stoic is how one imagines the life of lighthouse keepers, who were the visible side of the Service. Intrigue, jealousy, death, hate, weakness, bureaucracy, money; as well as love, purpose, dedication, generosity, and passion were in the invisible side of those who decided where to install, build and then administer the Lighthouse Services around the world. But while living the whole range of human emotions and experiences, they served the rest of humanity with unrelenting work and self-sacrifice. This book will take us to a far-away land and back to the 19th Century, where things were as different to those at home as we could imagine. Knowing the story of a foreign lighthouse service and revisiting their trials and tribulations, will help us to better understand and appreciate how and why things happen in our own land. While some situations are similar no matter where you look, we can find striking differences. “The Tribulations of a Lighthouse Service,” is a small sample of the trials and tribulations that most, if not all, lighthouse services of the world had to endure at the time of their golden age, when Fresnel lens illuminated the world’s coasts.
title: The Tribulations of a Lighthouse Service: A Story of the Lighthouses of Ecuador