Northern Lights: The Age of Scottish Lighthouses

Published for the 200th anniversary of the world’s oldest rock lighthouse, built by the famous Stevenson engineers on the Bell Rock eleven miles off the coast of Angus, Scotland.

This fully illustrated book tells the story of Scotland’s lighthouses through objects, charts and photographs, using National Museums Scotland’s pre-eminent collection of sea-marking material from the Northern Lighthouse Board, and also items from the Stevenson family.

‘ … oozes the highest quality of learned research and application that 200 years ago Robert Stevenson lavished on his Great Work … ’
Lamp, journal of the Association of Lighthouse Keepers