Whisky Galore Compton Mackenzie

Name: Whisky Galore By Compton Mackenzie
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Summary

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 50,000 cargo of the shipwrecked S.S. Cabinet Minister brings salvation - in its most giddily intoxicating form.

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Whisky Galore by Compton Mackenzie

'Love makes the world go round? Not at all. Whisky makes it go round twice as fast.' Wartime 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 thefifty-thousand-bottle cargo of the shipwrecked S.S. Cabinet Minister brings salvation - in its most giddily intoxicating form.

About Compton Mackenzie

Compton Mackenzie was born 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. He wrote more than ninety books and was also an outstanding broadcaster. He lived for many years in the Outer Hebrides but later settled in Edinburgh. He was knighted in 1952 and died in 1972.

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Sku

GOR009352931

ISBN 13

9780140282719

ISBN 10

0140282718

Title

Whisky Galore by Compton Mackenzie

Author

Compton Mackenzie

Series

Penguin Essentials

Condition

Used - Like New

Binding type

Paperback

Publisher

Penguin Books Ltd

Year published

19990225

Number of pages

304

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N/A

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The book has been read, but looks new. The book cover has no visible wear, and the dust jacket is included if applicable. No missing or damaged pages, no tears, possible very minimal creasing, no underlining or highlighting of text, and no writing in the margins