{"product_id":"the-lightkeepers-menagerie-stories-of-animals-at-lighthouses-9781561643912","title":"The Lightkeepers' Menagerie: Stories of Animals at Lighthouses","description":"\u003cp\u003eElinor De Wire has been writing about lighthouses and their keepers since 1972. During that time she found that hundreds of lighthouse animals wandered into her research notes and photo collection. This book is the story of all these cold-nosed, whiskered, wooly, hoofed, horned, slithery, buzzing, feathered, and finned keepers of the lights. Where else would a dog learn to ring a fogbell, a cat go swimming and catch a fish for its supper, or a parrot cuss the storm winds rattling its cage? Who other than a lightkeeper would swim a cow home, tame a baby seal, adopt an orphan alligator, send messages via carrier pigeons, or imagine mermaids coming to visit? \u003ci\u003eThe Lightkeepers' Menagerie\u003c\/i\u003e gathers together animal stories from lighthouses all around the world, tales of happiness and sadness, courage and cowardice, tragedy and comedy, even absurdity. Sometimes, fur, feathers, and fins tell the best tales.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eElinor De Wire, one of the most distinguished lighthouse historians in the USA, has been researching and photographing lighthouses for more than 25 years. She is the author of \u003ci\u003eLighthouses of the South\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eLighthouses of the Mid-Atlantic Coast, \u003c\/i\u003e both published by Voyageur Press. Elinore De Wire lives in Seabeck, Washington\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Pineapple Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50356551483666,"sku":"9781561643912","price":18.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_297f5924-3d60-4368-aba5-03553690bd0f.jpg?v=1728311046","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/the-lightkeepers-menagerie-stories-of-animals-at-lighthouses-9781561643912","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}