The last lighthouse keeper : a memoir / John Cook with Jon Bauer.
Material type: TextPublisher: Crows Nest, NSW Allen & Unwin, 2020Description: x, 339 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, portraits ; 24 cmContent type:- text
- still image
- unmediated
- volume
- 9781760875381
- 1760875384
- 387.155092 23
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Nonfiction | Hāwera LibraryPlus Nonfiction | Nonfiction | 92 COOK (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | i2200788 |
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.
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