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Stargazing: Memoirs of a Young Lighthouse Keeper Paperback - 2004
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In 1973 I worked as a lighthouse keeper on three islands off the west coast of Scotland.
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A generous book ... as full of lost dreams as a starry sky on a foggy night Daily Telegraph
It is 1973 and Peter Hill, his head filled with the Vietnam War, Frank Zappa, Jack Kerouac, the Watergate trial and Coronation Street, is about to spend six months on various remote Scottish lighthouses, keeping with all manner of unusual and fascinating people. This charming and beautifully written account of that time is not only a heartfelt lament for Hill's own youth and innocence but also for a simpler and more honest age. Poetic and evocative ... What makes Stargazing such a beautiful book is that it is more than an elegy to a vanished profession. It is an elegy to youth and to the constellation of dreams, ambitions and anxieties that is more intense at 19 than it can ever be again Sunday Herald A gentle comedy of manners, which pitches the green-around-the-gills Hill - an adolescent idealist - into the intrinsically no- nonsense, manly world of the lighthouse Independent As read on bbc radio 4 Cover photograph: Courtesy of PhotonicaCover design: Ghost
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- Title Stargazing: Memoirs of a Young Lighthouse Keeper
- Author Peter Hill
- Binding Paperback
- Edition Main
- Pages 336
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Canongate Books, UK
- Publication date May 31, 2004
- ISBN 9781841954998 / 1841954993
- Weight 0.55 lbs (0.25 kg)
- Dimensions 7.7 x 5.1 x 1 in (19.56 x 12.95 x 2.54 cm)
- Category Transportation
- Dewey Decimal Code 387
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