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Author : Stuart McHardy
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (128 download)
Download or read book Tales of Whisky and Smuggling written by Stuart McHardy and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Ian MacDonald
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 134 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Smuggling in the Highlands written by Ian MacDonald and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Ian MacDonald
Publisher : Gwasg y Bwthyn
ISBN 13 : 9781906000011
Total Pages : 124 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 ( download)
Download or read book Smuggling in the Highlands written by Ian MacDonald and published by Gwasg y Bwthyn. This book was released on 2007 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Julian Rubinstein
Publisher : Back Bay Books
ISBN 13 : 0316028282
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (16 download)
Download or read book Ballad of the Whiskey Robber written by Julian Rubinstein and published by Back Bay Books. This book was released on 2007-09-03 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DESCRIPTION: Elmore Leonard meets Franz Kafka in the wild, improbably true story of the legendary outlaw of Budapest. Attila Ambrus was a gentleman thief, a sort of Cary Grant--if only Grant came from Transylvania, was a terrible professional hockey goalkeeper, and preferred women in leopard-skin hot pants. During the 1990s, while playing for the biggest hockey team in Budapest, Ambrus took up bank robbery to make ends meet. Arrayed against him was perhaps the most incompetent team of crime investigators the Eastern Bloc had ever seen: a robbery chief who had learned how to be a detective by watching dubbed Columbo episodes; a forensics man who wore top hat and tails on the job; and a driver so inept he was known only by a Hungarian word that translates to Mound of Ass-Head. BALLAD OF THE WHISKEY ROBBER is the completely bizarre and hysterical story of the crime spree that made a nobody into a somebody, and told a forlorn nation that sometimes the brightest stars come from the blackest holes. Like The Professor and the Madman and The Orchid Thief, Julian Rubinsteins bizarre crime story is so odd and so wicked that it is completely irresistible.
Author : Charles MacLean
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781906251185
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (511 download)
Download or read book Whisky Tales written by Charles MacLean and published by . This book was released on 2009-04 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For centuries, whisky has tickled the palettes of the famous and the infamous alike, the good as well as the downright sinful. In this study, Charles MacLean pours a lifetime's passion and knowledge of Scotch whisky into an extraordinary array of anecdotes about this popular drink and those who have loved it. From ghost stories, tales of illicit smuggling operations, and feuding between the Scottish whisky families to poems and celebrations of the world's finest spirit, this is an engaging collection of literary works all dedicated to Scotland's most generous gift to the world.
Author : C. W. Hunt
Publisher : Dundurn
ISBN 13 : 1550022490
Total Pages : 195 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (5 download)
Download or read book Whisky and Ice written by C. W. Hunt and published by Dundurn. This book was released on 1996-07-26 with total page 195 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the 1920s, Ben Kerr was known as the ?King of the Rumrunners” and was put at the top of the most wanted list by the U.S. Coast Guard.
Author : Jean Ray
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781939663368
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (633 download)
Download or read book Whiskey Tales written by Jean Ray and published by . This book was released on 2018-11-20 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in French in 1925, Whiskey Tales immediately established the reputation of the Belgian master of the weird, Jean Ray (1887-1964), whose writings in the coming years would come to chart out a literary meeting ground between H.P. Lovecraft and Charles Dickens. A commercial success, the collection earned Ray the appellation of the "Belgian Poe." A year later, however, the author would be arrested on charges of embezzlement and serve two years in prison, where he would write some of his best stories. Something of a prequel to later collections such as Cruise of Shadows or Circles of Terror (both forthcoming from Wakefield Press), Whiskey Tales finds Ray embracing the modes of adventure and horror fiction adopted by such contemporaries as Pierre Mac Orlan and Maurice Renard. Taking us from ship's prow to port, from tavern to dead-end lane, these early tales are ruled by the spirits of whiskey and fog, each element blurring the borders between humor and horror, the sentimental and the sinister, the real and the imagined. A handful of these stories first appeared in English in Weird Tales in the 1930s, but the majority of this collection has never been translated. This first complete English-language edition is the first in many volumes of Jean Ray's books that Wakefield Press will be bringing out over the coming seasons.
Author : Tom Quinn
Publisher : David & Charles Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9780715306963
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (69 download)
Download or read book Smugglers' Tales written by Tom Quinn and published by David & Charles Publishers. This book was released on 1999 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tea and tobacco, lace, silk and many other products were brought into almost every coastal region and the spirited away by river, road and mountain path. Meanwhile, from Scotland and Ireland, illegally distilled whisky found its way into England over the sea and across every inch of land border.
Author : Rosemary Neering
Publisher : Heritage House Publishing Co
ISBN 13 : 1926936914
Total Pages : 146 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (269 download)
Download or read book Smugglers of the West written by Rosemary Neering and published by Heritage House Publishing Co. This book was released on 2011 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Do you think the smuggling of drugs and people is a new phenomenon in Canada's west? Think again! Between the mid-19th and mid-20th centuries, many daring smugglers carried contraband goods and people into western Canada across the US-Canada border or into BC from Asia. Smugglers of the West tells the dramatic tales of the bold criminals who smuggled Chinese immigrants, opium, liquor and a host of commodities ranging from wool to live animals to tobacco. Among them are Boss Harris, the shadowy kingpin whose opium-smuggling empire stretched from Victoria across North America, and King of the Smugglers Larry Kelly, who reputedly tied illegal Chinese immigrants to pig iron so they could be tossed overboard if American patrollers got too close. Rosemary Neering takes readers into a shadowy world where no item was too small and no risk too large for the men and women who carried goods and people clandestinely across the border.
Author : Daniel MacCannell
Publisher : Birlinn Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9781780273037
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (73 download)
Download or read book Scotland's Secret History written by Daniel MacCannell and published by Birlinn Publishers. This book was released on 2017 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Illicit distilling in Scotland was seen as a 'right of man' at the end of the 17th century. Attempts to enforce excise duty on the spirit were therefore met with resistance, ranging from riots to more and more ingenious ways of avoiding paying tax. In this book and Charles MacLean and Daniel MacCannell give a fascinating insight into the day-to-day struggles that led to the increase in illicit distilling from the mid-1600s, then to its eventual demise in the early twentieth century. The Cabrach, a wild and sparsely populated part of Aberdeenshire, became renowned for its production of illicit whisky. Local inhabitants mixed farming and distilling with great skill, creating a network of stills and distribution to evade customs. Using new research first-hand historical accounts and official records, the authors show how spirits from this small parish were made and travelled far and wide, across the border to England and across the North Sea to France, firing up revolution and lending solidarity to the struggles of the Jacobites. Features: Making Whisky (Dennis McBain), The Jacobite Legacy (Murray Pittock), The Bard and the Bottle (David Purdie), The Dram In Folklore (Tom McKean), A Smuggler's Paradise (David Ferguson); Banff - The Smuggler's Royal Burgh (Jay Wilson), Scotland's Lost Distilleries (Brian Townsend).
Author : Julian Rubinstein
Publisher : John Murray
ISBN 13 : 1848548265
Total Pages : 298 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (485 download)
Download or read book Ballad of the Whiskey Robber written by Julian Rubinstein and published by John Murray. This book was released on 2013-02-28 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What do you get when you add together a bottle of whiskey, a bad gambler, a flea-market wig, a plastic gun and a Hungarian bank? $5,900. And what do you get twenty-nine of these robberies later? The legend of the Whiskey Robber. When the Eastern bloc thawed, some extraordinary stories were revealed. But none is as entertaining as this. Attila Ambrus escaped late-eighties Romania for Hungary - but soon found that living on his wits wasn't getting him very far. Becoming goalie for a third-division ice hockey team brought no fortune and little glory, and his procession of moneymaking ruses fared little better - until he discovered robbery. With a supporting cast of car-wash owners, exotic dancers, drunk army generals and cocaine-snorting Hungarian rappers, Julian Rubinstein's tale is a spectacular debut, immortalizing the most charming outlaw since the Sundance Kid.
Author : Martin Cate
Publisher : Ten Speed Press
ISBN 13 : 1607747332
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (77 download)
Download or read book Smuggler's Cove written by Martin Cate and published by Ten Speed Press. This book was released on 2016-06-07 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Martin and Rebecca Cate, founders and owners of Smuggler’s Cove (the most acclaimed tiki bar of the modern era) take you on a colorful journey into the lore and legend of tiki: its birth as an escapist fantasy for Depression-era Americans; how exotic cocktails were invented, stolen, and re-invented; Hollywood starlets and scandals; and tiki’s modern-day revival, in this James Beard Award-winning cocktail book. Featuring more than 100 delicious recipes (original and historic), plus a groundbreaking new approach to understanding rum, Smuggler’s Cove is the magnum opus of the contemporary tiki renaissance. Whether you’re looking for a new favorite cocktail, tips on how to trick out your home tiki grotto, help stocking your bar with great rums, or inspiration for your next tiki party, Smuggler’s Cove has everything you need to transform your world into a Polynesian Pop fantasia. Make yourself a Mai Tai, put your favorite exotica record on the hi-fi, and prepare to lose yourself in the fantastical world of tiki, one of the most alluring—and often misunderstood—movements in American cultural history.
Author : Stuart McHardy
Publisher : Luath Press Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1909912255
Total Pages : 193 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (99 download)
Download or read book Scotland the Brave Land written by Stuart McHardy and published by Luath Press Ltd. This book was released on 2013-07-22 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From bold heroines to clan battles, standing stones to castles, there is hardly any aspect of Scotland's heritage that does not feature in our storytelling traditions. This collection of stories from all parts of Scotland, and from all periods of our dramatic - and often truly heroic - history is both an introduction to and a journey into Scotland's rich cultural heritage. Covering the same themes as Disney-Pixar's new fairytale film, Brave, this book provides the next step for those wishing to delve deeper into Scotland's culture and traditions. BACK COVER: There is not a stream or a rock that does not have its story. STUART McHARDY With the release of Disney-Pixar's 'Brave' the world's attention is being drawn to Scotland and its fascinating history. But 'Brave' merely scrapes the surface of Scotland's rich story-telling culture. This collection of tales is the next step for anyone wishing to look further into the traditions of Scotland. These enchanting tales reflect the wide diversity of its heritage and there are few aspects of Scottish tradition that have escaped memorialisation in folklore. With its captivating, and often gruesome, tales of heroic warriors in battle, bold heroines, deceitful aristocracy, and supernatural creatures Brave Land is a journey into the cultural heritage of a nation and the folklore surrounding the creation of the breath-taking landscape of its country. Scotland the Brave Land provides the reader the perfect opportunity to delve a little deeper into the myths, legends and history of this truly mesmerising country.
Author : F. John McLaughlin
Publisher : AuthorHouse
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 41 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (23 download)
Download or read book Maine Lobster Tales written by F. John McLaughlin and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2023-08-20 with total page 41 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Twenty young lobsters graduating from Lobster School emerge from the depths of the Gulf of Maine. They colonize the “Black Rocks,” three small rocky islands a quarter of a mile off York Harbor Beach. They are very excited, as they are free for the first time from parental supervision. Disaster strikes the following morning when they realize that Lancelot Lobster is missing. He is always ravenous and they assume that, despite all the warnings in school, Lancelot might have been tempted to enter a lobster trap. Their adventures begin: a dramatic rescue, a lobster hunter, a mussel-eating fox, smugglers, shipwrecks, a ghost circus, submarines, lobster boat races, a misunderstanding in a lobster bar, and the heroic rescue of an entrapped whale.
Author : Stuart McHardy
Publisher : Luath Press Ltd
ISBN 13 : 180425097X
Total Pages : 239 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (42 download)
Download or read book The Nine Maidens written by Stuart McHardy and published by Luath Press Ltd. This book was released on 2023-08-30 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Whether as the mothers of the Norse God Heimdall, Morgan and her sisters on Avalon, the nine sisters at the heart of the founding myth of the Gikuyu of Kenya, or witches battling with the Irish St Patrick, stories of nine women, often attending a goddess or linked to a heroic or divine male, exist across much of our world. Triggered by a local story still told in his native Dundee, Stuart McHardy has traced what seems to be memories of groups of nine women, most likely some kind of priestesses, across much of Europe and as far as Siberia, Korea, India and Africa. Whether as Pictish saints, Muses, Valkyries, Druidesses or witches, the tales of these groups of nine women transcend a vast range of cultural and linguistic boundaries. The painting of nine women dancing round a priapic male in a Catalonian cave painting over fifteen thousand years old suggests these groups may well have been one of the oldest cultural institutions humanity has known.
Author : F. Paul Pacult
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 314 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book A Double Scotch written by F. Paul Pacult and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2005-03-21 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "You'll meet the Chivas brothers, James and John, an ambitious pair of upscale Aberdeen grocers who never owned or operated a distillery, but elevated the process of blending whiskies to a fine and very profitable art. The father-and-son team of George and John Gordon Smith, on the other hand, were hardy Highlands farmers from the Glenlivet district of Banffshire whose sideline malt whisky business became too lucrative to remain a part-time pursuit." "For all of their differences, the Smiths and the Chivas brothers shared a common dedication to quality, authenticity, and customer service. These two families - along with their flagship brands - transformed their local craft by creating first a nationwide, then a worldwide market for their products."--Jacket.
Author : Charles Maclean
Publisher : Mitchell Beazley
ISBN 13 : 1784727210
Total Pages : 394 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (847 download)
Download or read book Malt Whisky written by Charles Maclean and published by Mitchell Beazley. This book was released on 2020-04-24 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Scotland's leading whisky expert' - The Times Malt whisky has captured the hearts of spirits drinkers worldwide. This companion to Scotland's distilleries explores the history of malt whisky, how it is distilled and the contribution made by each ingredient throughout the process. Author Charles MacLean, a world authority on Scottish malt whisky, shows you how best to appreciate whisky and evaluate its subtleties, as well as how to describe its complex aromas and flavours. Malt Whisky includes a detailed A-Z directory of Scotland's distilleries with full-colour maps and more than 150 photographs. Tasting notes are also provided, as well as tips on buying malt whisky, a guide to visiting distilleries and the best whisky societies and websites available worldwide. This book is an invaluable guide for lovers of malt whisky, whether you are deciding which whiskies to buy, organizing a tasting, or simply armchair dreaming, dram in hand. - Recommendations from a world-respected authority - More than 250 maps and illustrations - A-Z directory of Scotland's malt whisky distilleries - Tasting notes for a variety of whiskies - Tips on buying and collecting
