Circular Atlas of Mayakov. From architectural solutions and technical equipment to centuries -old secrets and legends

In this unusual journey to the most remote lighthouses on the planet, you will get acquainted not only with the features of their architecture, internal structure and technical equipment, but also with many exciting stories associated with the construction of lighthouses and their caretakers, with shipwrecking and mystical incidents. This is a story about a blind viewer of a lighthouse behind a polar circle, about a fearless girl who came to the aid of a disturbing,

about the ghost of the midshipman, who is a certain warning on the lighthouse every night and tapping on the typewriter, about a strange person who is a strange person who is a strange person who is He preferred to hide from everyone in the tower in the open sea... In these stories, the motives and creative horizons of Jules Verne, Edgar Allan Poe, Virginia Wolfe, who spent his childhood in the lighthouse, Redjard Kipling, Ray Bradbury and other great writers who sought to tell the world about loneliness, oh oh, oh oh oh oh. anxiety, about courage and happiness.

The text is accompanied by magnificent illustrations, marine cards and large -scale plans indicating the exact coordinates of the beacons and their technical characteristics - the scheme of each beacon in the context, its exact coordinates and parameters of the light signal, is named The engineer, the construction time and commissioning, it is indicated whether the lighthouse is functioning now or is abandoned, what is the height of its tower, the height of fire above sea level, the range of visibility of fire, and many other interesting information is given.

You are not just a book about beacons. This is a way to know ourselves, reflected in the mirror of human nature, ask the question of whether we are able to live alone and how dependent on each other in the struggle for survival. ”