Whisky Galore

Mackenzie, Sir Compton

ISBN 10: 0862418798 / ISBN 13: 9780862418793

Edité par Canongate Books Ltd, 1999

The book 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 GOR001895406

Synopsis :

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, until the 50,000 bottle cargo of the shipwrecked SS Cabinet Minister brings salvation.

Biographie 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 : Canongate Books Ltd
Date d'édition : 1999
Reliure : Hardback
Etat : Very Good