Cape Hatteras Lighthouse: Sentinel of the Shoals - Softcover

Carr, Dawson

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9780807843192: Cape Hatteras Lighthouse: Sentinel of the Shoals

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0807843199 ISBN 13: 9780807843192

Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Pr, 1991

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Traces the history of America's tallest lighthouse and North Carolina's most famous landmark, and explains the forces that now threaten it

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"The story of the Cape Hatteras Lighthouse, North Carolina's most famous landmark, has been told often but never with more vivid and pertinent description than in Dawson Carr's engaging narrative."-- North Carolina Historical Review

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This new edition includes the amazing story of the 1999 relocation of the Cape Hatteras lighthouse, the famous North Carolina landmark that has guarded the Graveyard of the Atlantic since 1871. The tallest brick lighthouse in the U.S., it has survived two wars and numerous violent storms?and a carefully engineered relocation to a spot less threatened by beach erosion.

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