"A fascinating shoreline tour from Fernandina’s Amelia Island on the Atlantic to Pensacola on the Gulf."—Tampa Tribune

"After reading this book, you might feel like jumping in your car and touring the lighthouses on the Florida coasts. If so, you’ll be in luck, because Florida Lighthouses contains maps and directions for reaching each lighthouse, plus information about tours and fees."—Florida Times-Union

"A fascinating shoreline tour from Fernandina’s Amelia Island on the Atlantic to Pensacola on the Gulf."—Tampa Tribune
 
"After reading this book, you might feel like jumping in your car and touring the lighthouses on the Florida coasts."—Florida Times-Union

Every night, from thirty-one points along Florida’s thousand-mile coastline, fingers of light reach out through the darkness to guide the ships at sea. Kevin McCarthy has written the most complete guide available to Florida’s lighthouses, each entry illustrated with a full-color reproduction of William Trotter’s painting of the structure in its turn-of-the-century prime. Devoting several pages to the story of each of the state’s lights, McCarthy has collected a remarkable variety of lighthouse legend, anecdote, and history.
 
Kevin McCarthy is professor emeritus of English at the University of Florida. He is the author of editor of many books, including Nine Florida Stories by Marjory Stoneman Douglas and More Florida Stories.   William Trotter (1931-2023), a registered Coast Guard artist, was president of the American Lighthouse Historical Society and director of a lighthouse museum in Jacksonville Beach.

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"A fascinating book that will take you on a one-day trip from Central Florida and one tank of gas to most places where the 30 lighthouses and one light station are located." "More than just an armchair history."
--News Chief