Coloring book fans and admirers of those lonely sentinels by the sea will treasure this ready-to-color collection of 30 authentic lighthouses — from ancient days to the present. Included are accurate depictions of:

• Pharos light in Alexandria, Egypt
• a 2,000-year-old Roman lighthouse in England
• Bugio light off the Portuguese coast 
• 18th-century pillared construction in Riga, Latvia
• Cloch Point, Scotland (1797)
• Green Point in Cape Town, South Africa (1824)
• Biscayne Bay, United States (1825)
• Europa Point, Gibraltar (1841)
• Farewell Spit on Golden Bay, New Zealand (1897)
• Fastnet Rock in West Cork, Ireland (1906)
• Brockton Point in Vancouver, Canada (1915)

 Extensive captions accompany the detailed drawings, citing location, and historical data for each lighthouse.