Whisky Galore

Mackenzie, Compton

ISBN 10: 0099453541 / ISBN 13: 9780099453543

Edité par Vintage, 2004

Most items will be dispatched the same or the next working day. A copy that has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged. N° de réf. du vendeur wbs9403305621

Synopsis :

'Love makes the world go round? Not at all. Whisky makes it go round twice as fast.'

The hilarious story of wartime bootlegging in the Scottish islands.

À propos de l'auteur: 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.

Détails bibliographiques

Titre : Whisky Galore
Éditeur : Vintage
Date d'édition : 2004
Reliure : Couverture souple
Etat : Very Good