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Whisky Galore
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Whisky Galore

£9.99

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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SKU: CH-WB-WG Categories: Book Shop, Whisky Books Tags: Scottish Writing, Whisky, Whisky books
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Whisky Galore is the story of a World War II cargo vessel (S.S. Cabinet Minister) that is wrecked off a remote fictional Scottish island group — Great Todday and Little Todday — with fifty thousand cases of whisky aboard. Due to wartime rationing, the thirsty islanders had nearly run out of the “water of life” and see this as an unexpected godsend. They manage to salvage several hundred cases before the ship sinks. But it is not all clear sailing. They must thwart the efforts of the authorities to confiscate the liquor, particularly in the shape of misguided, pompous English Home Guard Captain Paul Waggett. A cat-and-mouse battle of wits ensues.

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Weight0.212 kg
Dimensions19.7 × 12.8 × 1.8 cm
Author

Compton Mackenzie

ISBN

978-0099453543

Publisher

Vintage

Language

English

Paperback

304 pages

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