Hantsport, Nova Scotia: Lancelot Press, 1988. Book. Very Good. Soft cover. Later Printing. 8vo. 131 pp. Trade paperback format. Edge and corner wear with a crease on the front hinge and a crease on the spine; no interior markings. Illustrated with black and white photographs. In the 1920s, when the stupidity of Prohibition created hundreds of new criminals, many coastal communities in Atlantic Canada, still hurting from the temporary demise of the fisheries, found it to be a terrific business opportunity. Rum running saved many Maritime families from abject poverty... The Chapters are: When and Why; The Foxes and the Hounds; Days I Recall; I'm Alone; Capers on the Islands; The Ordinary Seaman; Booze and the Boys; St Pierre and Its Cargoes; Death on the Josephine K; Tricks and the Trade; Logan - the Man; Officers and the Quarry; Harry Low and His Empire; Run to Nassau; Ships from Meteghan; Rum for the Annapolis Valley; The Champ; Perils of the Sea; and The Beginning - The Action - The End..

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Bookseller: W. Fraser Sandercombe (CA)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 220881
Title: THE RUM RUNNING YEARS
Author: Hennigar, Ted R
Format/Binding: Paperback
Book Condition: Used - Very Good
Edition: Later Printing
ISBN 10: 088999160X
ISBN 13: 9780889991606
Publisher: Lancelot Press
Place of Publication: Hantsport, Nova Scotia
Date Published: 1988
Size: 8vo
Keywords: rum; prohibition; great depression; seafaring nautical adventure; lunenburg nova scotia; local history; canadiana; canadian author;
Bookseller catalogs: History - Canada;

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