Whisky Galore Compton Mackenzie

Name: Whisky Galore By Compton Mackenzie
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Whisky Galore by Compton Mackenzie

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Summary

Presents the story of wartime bootlegging in the Scottish islands. Wartime food rationing is bad enough, but when the whisky supplies run out on the Hebridean islands of Great and Little Todday, nothing seems to go right. Then the fifty-thousand-bottle cargo of the shipwrecked S S Cabinet Minister brings salvation.

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Whisky Galore by Compton Mackenzie

Wartime food rationing is bad enough, but when the whisky supplies run out on the Hebridean islands of Great and Little Todday, nothing seems to go right. Then the fifty-thousand-bottle cargo of the shipwrecked S. S. Cabinet Minister brings salvation - in its most giddily intoxicating form.

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About Compton Mackenzie

Compton Mackenzie was born in West Hartlepool in 1883. He was educated at St Paul's School and Magdalen College, Oxford. During the First World War he became a Captain in the Royal Marines, becoming Director of the Aegean Intelligence Service. He wrote more than ninety books - novels, history and biography, essays and criticism, children's stories and verse, and was also an outstanding broadcaster. He founded and edited until 1961 the magazine the Gramophone, and was President of the Siamese Cat Club. He lived for many years on the island of Barra in the Outer Hebrides, but later settled in Edinburgh. Compton Mackenzie died in 1972.

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Sku

GOR001155289

ISBN 13

9780099453543

ISBN 10

0099453541

Title

Whisky Galore by Compton Mackenzie

Author

Compton Mackenzie

Condition

Used - Very Good

Binding type

Paperback

Publisher

Vintage Publishing

Year published

20041104

Number of pages

304

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N/A

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