Peter Logan
Books
- Eleven Miles Out Robert Stevenson, John Rennie, and the Building of the Bell Rock Lighthouse · Liszt Think
Eleven miles off the Scottish coast, a reef lies submerged for twenty hours a day. In the early nineteenth century, raising a granite tower on this treacherous foundation seemed impossible.
- The Engineer’s Apprenticeship…rity of his stepfather, Thomas Smith, the Board’s engineer, but not yet the confidence of the men. The master mason, a taciturn Fifer named Peter Logan, had worked the stone at Inchkeith and Kinnaird Head; he knew what a lighthouse required and knew, too, that the young man watching the ree…
- The Beacon House on the Rock…timber leg swung clear of the water for the first time as six men hauled on the ropes, their boots finding purchase on weed-slicked stone. Peter Logan watched the foot of the oak post describe an arc toward the iron socket that masons had pinned to the reef the previous season. The tide wa…
- The Smeaton Breaks LoosePeter Logan straightened from the work, the pickaxe heavy in his hands, and looked toward the ship. The motion was automatic, a habit formed across wee…