Lighthouses as Media is a marvelous and ambitious book, written in the spirit of the lighthouse itself: it gazes out over a roiling sea of historical, geographical, liturgical, technological, philosophical, and personal sources, and helps readers navigate with grace and insight. In MacDonald's capable hands, the lighthouse's familiar structure - seemingly defined by a single, utilitarian purpose - is transformed into an incisive matterphor about the human search for meaning and belonging, about the (often impossible) dream of clarity and vision in an uncertain world, and about the more-than-human futures that will be required of us if we are to find safe harbor in an increasingly perilous twenty-first century.

Travis Brisini, Assistant Professor in the Department of Communication Studies, Louisiana State University, USA