Maritime Safety
Lighthouses have been around for a long time. However, it has been only in the last few centuries they have grown exponentially in number. This book goes into some of the politics involved in getting lighthouses built, and in Great Britain the wrangling between the Scots and the English over who would control the service. The Stevensons who built the preponderance of lighthouses around Scotland are probably better known for one of their number who chose to give up the lighthouse tradition and go into writing, Robert Louis Stevenson. He was, for a time, part of the engineering Stevensons and used some of his experiences in writing his literary works.
