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The Keeper of Lime Rock : the remarkable true story of Ida Lewis, America's most celebrated lighthouse keeper / by Lenore Skomal.
LIBRA - Special VK1140.L48 S58 2002
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Skomal, Lenore.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Lewis, Ida, 1842-1911.
- Lewis, Ida.
- Ida Lewis Rock Light (R.I.).
- Women lighthouse keepers--Rhode Island--Newport--Biography.
- Women lighthouse keepers.
- Lighthouse keepers--Rhode Island--Newport--Biography.
- Lighthouse keepers.
- Women heroes--Rhode Island--Newport--Biography.
- Women heroes.
- History.
- Lifesaving.
- Newport (R.I.)--Biography.
- Newport (R.I.).
- Lifesaving--Rhode Island--Newport--History.
- Ida Lewis Rock Light (R.I.)--History.
- Rhode Island--Newport.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Penn Provenance:
- Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)
- Skomal, Lenore (autograph) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)
- Teacher, Stuart (donor) (Running Press copy)
- Physical Description:
- 149, [3] pages : illustrations, map ; 22 cm
- Distribution:
- London : Running Press,
- Place of Publication:
- Philadelphia : Running Press, [2002]
- Contents:
- Propelled to Notoriety
- In the Beginning
- The First Rescue
- The Summer of '69
- Keeping the Wick
- The Rescues Continue: The Second, Third, and Fourth
- Losing Heart
- A Solitary Life (1881-1911)
- In Death, Beloved
- Epilogue: Ida Lewis Lighthouse.
- Notes:
- Map on lining papers.
- "Cover illustration: Copoyright © 2001 VCG/Getty Images. Cover design by Whitney Cookman. Design by Serrin Bodmer. Edited by Jennifer Worick. Typography: AGaramond, Goudy, Cezanne, Vendome ICG, and Webdings."--Title page verso.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [145]-149).
- Local Notes:
- Gotham Book Mart Collection copy has dustjacket retained.
- Gotham Book Mart Collection copy signed by the author.
- Running Press Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2008 by Stuart "Buz" Teacher.
- Running Press copy has dustjacket retained.
- Running Press copy is "1" printing.
- ISBN:
- 0762413093
- 9780762413096
- 076241538X
- 9780762415380
- OCLC:
- 49527794
- Online:
- Contributor biographical information
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