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Guiding Lights: United States Naval Academy Monuments and Memorials
Author(s): Nancy Prothra Arbuthnot (Author)
- Publisher: Naval Institute Press
- Publication Date: 31 Dec. 2009
- Edition: 1st
- Language: English
- Print length: 256 pages
- ISBN-10: 1591140161
- ISBN-13: 9781591140160
Book Description
In this easy-to-use reference, Naval Academy English professor Nancy Prothro Arbuthnot tells the stories behind sixty of the US Naval Academy’s monuments and memorials. To personalise the memorials and the naval figures they honour, she has included letters, firsthand battle reports, Lucky Bag commentaries, award citations, and other documents. Along with famous quotations, the book also presents poems and tributes written by midshipmen that explain how the memorials have inspired them, along with original poems by the author. More than 140 illustrations, including black-and-white photographs and reproductions of historic sketches, visually enrich the book. In revealing the people and events behind the Academy’s memorials, Arbuthnot provides models―or guiding lights―to help readers steer their own courses through life.
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About the Author
Nancy Arbuthnot, a professor of English at the Naval Academy since 1981, has published books of original poetry, translations of poetry from the Aztec and Vietnamese, and a monograph on a naval art of WWII. Her current projects include retellings of folk stories from Vietnam and the Marshall Islands. She lives in Washington, DC.
