The last lighthouse keeper : a memoir / John Cook with Jon Bauer.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Cook, John, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Lighthouse keepers--Fiction.

Lighthouse keepers.

Cook, John.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (368 pages)

Place of Publication:

Sydney : Allen & Unwin, 2020.

Summary:

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.-- Source other than Library of Congress.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-76087-461-2