The seas around Scotland were notorious for shipwrecks. In 1786 the Northern Lighthouse Trust was established, with Robert Stevenson appointed as chief engineer – beginning a partnership spanning almost two centuries and four generations of the same family. The Lighthouse Stevensons is a unique account of how a single family virtually defined the Scottish coast by designing and building lighthouses in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.

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