 Hardcover
(July 1990)- ISBN 0930268091
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- Paperback (July 1990)
- ISBN 0930268083
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- Publisher
- Costano Books
- PO Box 355
- Petaluma, CA 94953
- USA
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- The
Author (from book)
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- Ralph Shanks is a maritime historian specializing in
the history of the Coast Guard, the Lighthouse Service
and the Life-Saving Service. He has been trained at
California lighthouses since age eight and this is his
third book on lighthouses and Coast Guard search and
rescue operations. His earlier books include
Lighthouses of San Francisco Bay and
Lighthouses and Lifeboats on the Redwood Coast.
His articles on the Life-Saving Service have been
published by the National Maritime Museum. Mr. Shanks has
been a consultant on lighthouse and lifeboat station
preservation and history for the National Park Service,
Coast Guard, Bureau of Land Management, California State
Department of Parks and Recreation, and others. He
believes in gaining first hand knowledge of his subject
and has been at sea in over a dozen types of Coast Guard
vessels and has operated lighthouses and handled motor
lifeboats. He is a teacher in the San Rafael City Schools
in San Rafael, CA, and his love of Coast Guard history is
only exceeded by his love of his wife Lisa and his
family. Besides his maritime history work, Mr. Shanks is
interested in Native American cultures and wrote the
North American Indian Travel Guide. He has a
masters degree in sociology.
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