Lighthouses of North America: Beacons from Coast to Coast
This volume gives readers a tour of more than 70 lighthouses found in the U.S. and Canada, from Cape Decision, Alaska, to Hilton Head, South Carolina. The introductory material offers a brief history of lighthouses worldwide, and the sections are divided by construction style—conical and cylindrical, square, hexagonal and octagonal, and skeletal. Large, full-color photographs dominate the work, with snippets of narrative interspersed here and there, offering facts and figures on various structures. There are also a number of interesting essays that discuss illumination, “lost” lighthouses, and the future of the lighthouse.  This is a browsable and beautiful book, suitable for most public libraries. --Rebecca Vnuk