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in Washington State's San Juan Islands. Set during Edward Durgan's eight-year term as lighthouse keeper from 1905–1913, it offers a child's perspective on a number of adult themes, including death, murder, strong language, and
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that many of the events in the book could not have happened as described and that many of the characters were not on the island, either from flawed memory or the desire to make the story more interesting.
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Cliff Roberts
Coward-McCann
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ISBN
0-9707399-0-7
OCLC
46895158
lighthouse on Patos Island
smugglers
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Reviews on Amazon.com
Reviews on Goodreads.com
"Light Up" Your Destinations
Keepers of the Patos Light
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autobiographical novel
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