Stargazing

Paperback, 340 pages

Published May 31, 2004 by Canongate Books Ltd.

ISBN:
978-1-84195-499-8
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OCLC Number:
56097407

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5 stars (1 review)

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reviewed Stargazing by Peter Hill

An elegy to a vanished profession

5 stars

In 1973, Peter Hill takes a summer away from art school in Dundee to be a trainee lighthouse keeper. This book pressed so many buttons for me. I lived in Dundee, in the same streets, albeit a decade later. I remember the Television Peter and his companions watched. And I fancied being a lighthouse keeper before automation eliminated that job.

Subjects

  • Biography: general
  • Ships & shipping: general interest
  • Transportation