Open Daily: 10am - 10pm | Alley door pickup 10am - 7pm 3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
612-822-4611

  • Open Daily: 10am - 10pm
    Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm

    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

Open Daily: 10am - 10pm | Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm
3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
612-822-4611
The Last Lighthouse Keeper: A Memoir

The Last Lighthouse Keeper: A Memoir

Cook, John
Bauer, Jon

Paperback

Biographies GeneralAustralia & Oceania

Currently unavailable to order

ISBN10: 1760875384
ISBN13: 9781760875381
Publisher: Allen & Unwin
Published: Oct 1 2021
Pages: 352
Weight: 1.03
Height: 1.05 Width: 6.13 Depth: 9.23
Language: English
A beautiful memoir from one of Tasmania's last kerosene lighthouse keepers: a story about madness and wilderness, shining a light onto the vicissitudes of love and nature

I loved the life of the island, because I knew my body was more alive than it was on the mainland. People asked how we stood the isolation and boredom, but in some ways, it was more stimulating to have your senses turned up.

In Tasmania, John Cook is known as The Keeper of the Flame. As one of Australia's longest-serving lighthouse keepers, John spent 26 years tending Tasmania's well-known kerosene lights at Tasman Island, Maatsuyker Island, and Bruny Island.

From sleepless nights keeping the lights alive, battling the wind and sea as they ripped at gutters and flooded stores, raising a joey, tending sheep, and keeping ducks and chickens, the life of a keeper was one of unexpected joy and heartbreak. But for John, nothing was more heartbreaking than the introduction of electric lights, and the lighthouses that were left empty forever.

Evocatively told, The Last Lighthouse Keeper is a love story between a man and a dying way of life, as well as a celebration of wilderness and solitude.

Also in

Biographies General

View All