21st Century Complete Guide to Lighthouses, Light Stations and Historic Ships: National Park Service, Navy, and Coast Guard Inventories and Images

This electronic book on CD-ROM presents the complete story of America's marvelous lighthouses, light stations, light ships, and lighthouse lenses. Additional material is also provided on historic ships in the United States. Color images and complete inventories from the National Park Service, Navy, and U.S. Coast Guard constitute the core of this beautiful collection, which encompasses several thousand pages. Topics covered include lighthouse preservation, historically famous lighthouses, light ships and lenses.

In addition to their incorporation into the documents on the CD, over 400 great photographs are provided as individual .jpg files for your use. This book-on-a-disc makes a superb reference work for history enthusiasts, libraries, researchers, schools, students, and home reference! It is designed to provide a convenient user-friendly general reference work, utilizing the benefits of the Adobe Acrobat format to uniformly present thousands of pages that can be rapidly reviewed or printed without untold hours of tedious searching and downloading. Vast archives of important government information that might otherwise remain inaccessible are available for instant review. The documents are reproduced using Adobe Acrobat PDF software - allowing direct viewing on Windows and Apple Macintosh systems. Reader software is included on the CD.