Keeper of the Light , livre ebook

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Arnold Caroline Arnold

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Publié par

ABRAMS BOOKS

Date de parution

12 avril 2022

Nombre de lectures

EAN13

9781647007188

Langue

English

Poids de l'ouvrage

11 Mo

Inspired by the logs of a female lightkeeper who kept the light shining through the fog following the 1906 San Francisco earthquake, this adventurous story captures an important piece of American history Juliet Fish Nichols is the keeper of the light on Angel Island in the San Francisco Bay Area. Her foe? The fog. Day and night-summer, fall, winter, spring-she must keep the light shining and the fog bell ringing, no matter what. But what happens when there is a major earthquake? What happens when the bell breaks? Keeper of the Light: Juliet Fish Nichols Fights the San Francisco Fog was inspired by the real Juliet's lightkeeper logs and adventures.

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Publié par

ABRAMS BOOKS

Date de parution

12 avril 2022

Nombre de lectures

EAN13

9781647007188

Langue

English

Poids de l'ouvrage

11 Mo

California Histoire

TO THE ANGEL ISLAND CONSERVANCY FOR ITS DEDICATION TO PRESERVING,

RESTORING, AND BUILDING COMMUNITY SUPPORT FOR ANGEL ISLAND,

AND TO THE ANGEL ISLAND STATE PARK STAFF.

C.A.

THANK YOU TO CASEY DEXTER

LEE, THE ANGEL ISLAND STATE PARK INTERPRETER;

LAURA WOOD, AN ARCHITECT FOR THE CALIFORNIA STATE PARKS;

AND NOAH M. STEWART, HISTORIAN FOR THE CALIFORNIA STATE PARKS.

I D ALSO LIKE TO THANK MY FAMILY: JACOB, MICA, AND CALDER.

R.S.

Illustration of Juliet Fish Nichols courtesy of the San Francisco Call , Sunday, June 15, 1890

Illustration of Juliet Fish Nichols: The Real Heroine of Angel Island courtesy of the San Francisco Chronicle , Sunday, May 13, 1906

Map of Angel Island from Angel Island: The Ellis Island of the West by Mary Bamford, published by the Woman s American Baptist Home Mission Society in May 1917

Photo of Angel Island Lighthouse courtesy of the U.S. Coast Guard

Case and endpaper images courtesy of Shutterstock

Book design by Melissa Nelson Greenberg

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ISBN: 978-1-951836-37-5 eISBN: 978-1-64700-718-8