The red rocks of Eddystone.
by F. Majdalany
Describes the building of the first rock light house in Britian - from Winstanley's first tower (1698) to the Douglass tower (1888) that is still standing today. Describes in detail the actual building and engineering processes and other related facts such as the discovery of lead poisoning, quick drying cement and the introduction of 'unionism'. A great mixture of fact and story
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"Fourteen miles to the south-west of Plymouth astride the approach to its great harbour, the fairway of the English Channel is broken by a triple reef. The rust-red rocks of which it is composed are a rare form of granitoid gneiss found in only one other area of the British Isles, at Prawle Point twenty-seven miles away: an indication that in the remote pre-Cambrian past the reef was joined to the mainland."
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