The last lighthouse keeper : a memoir
Cook, John2021
Books, Manuscripts
Find it!
In Tasmania, John Cook is known as 'The Keeper of the Flame'. As one of Australia's longest-serving lighthouse keepers, John spent 26 years tending Tasmania's well-known kerosene 'lights' at Tasman Island, Maatsuyker Island and Bruny Island. From sleepless nights keeping the lights alive, battling the wind and sea as they ripped at gutters and flooded stores, raising a joey, tending sheep and keeping ducks and chickens, the life of a keeper was one of unexpected joy and heartbreak. But for John, nothing was more heartbreaking than the introduction of electric lights, and the lighthouses that were left empty forever. Evocatively told, The Last Lighthouse Keeper is a love story between a man and a dying way of life, as well as a celebration of wilderness and solitude.
Main title:
The last lighthouse keeper : a memoir / John Cook, Jon Bauer.
Author:
Cook, John, authorBauer, Jon, author
Imprint:
Sydney : Allen & Unwin, 2021.
Collation:
352 pages ; 24 cm
ISBN:
9781760875381 (pbk)
Dewey class:
387.155092387.155
LC class:
VK1140
Local class:
B COO
Language:
English
BRN:
2824133