There is something beautiful and wild in the impossible architecture of lighthouses. They have been the homes and workplaces of men and women, whose romantic guardianship has saved countless lives from cruel seas. Yet while that way of life fades away, as the lights go out and the buildings crumble, we still have their stories. From a blind lighthouse-keeper tending a light in the Arctic Circle, to an intrepid young girl saving ships from wreck and the plight of the lighthouse crew cut off from society for forty days, taking in Edgar Allan Poe’s unfinished texts and Virginia Woolf’s childhood, this is a glorious book full of illuminating stories that will transport the reader to the world’s most remote and isolated lighthouses. With over thirty tales that explore the depths to which we can sink and the heights to which we can soar as human beings, and accompanied by beautiful illustrations, nautical charts, architectural plans and curious facts, A Brief Atlas of the Lighthouses at the End of the World is as full of wonder as the far-flung lighthouses themselves. Translated from Spanish by Daniel Hahn

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