SCOTTISH LIGHTHOUSE PIONEERS

In the 19th century, the Stevenson engineers pioneered marvellous lighthouses around Scotland which inspire with their architectural elegance, and speak of compassion for sailors and fishermen. In this book the reader is taken to the Orkney and Shetland Islands - a vital shipping route between the North Sea, Baltic, and North Atlantic - and on to Muckle Flugga, the northernmost outpost of the British Isles and last link in the chain, a vicious rock on which David and Thomas Stevenson dared to build their 'impossible lighthouse'.