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A beautiful memoir from John Cook, one of Tasmania's last kerosene lighthouse keepers. A story about madness and wilderness, shining a light onto the vicissitudes of love and nature.In Tasmania, John Cook is known as:'The Keeper of the Flame'. John's renowned as one of the last of the'kerosene keepers': he spent a good part of his 26-year career in Tasmanian lighthouses tending kerosene, not electrical, lamps. He joined the lighthouse service in 1969, after a spell in the merchant marine. Far from reviling work on isolated islands such as Tasman and Maatsuyker, Australia's southernmost lighthouse, he discovered that he loved the solitude and delighted in the sense of purpose that light keeping gave him. He did two stints on Tasman, in 1969-71 and 1977, and was the head keeper on Maatsuyker for eight years. Tasman's kerosene light was a pressure lamp fuelled by two big bottles that had to be pumped up to 75 pounds per square inch (about 516 kilopascals):'It was the equivalent of pumping up a tyre every 20 minutes,'John says.'Then you had to wind up the weights - they went down the tower and turned the prism around like a big clockwork. If the weights went all the way to the bottom,

Author

Cook, John, Jon Bauer, John Cook

Publisher

Sydney: Allen & Unwin

Published

2020

Language

EN

ISBN

9781760875381

Subjects

Memoir, Business, Military

Rating

4 / 5 (129 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14