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Smuggling in the Highlands
Smuggling in the Highlands
Author: Ian MacDonald
Publisher: Gwasg y Bwthyn
Published: 2007
Total Pages: 124
ISBN-13: 9781906000011
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Ballad of the Whiskey Robber
Author: Julian Rubinstein
Publisher: Back Bay Books
Published: 2007-09-03
Total Pages: 352
ISBN-13: 0316028282
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →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.
Whisky Tales
Author: Charles MacLean
Publisher:
Published: 2009-04
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781906251185
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →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.
Smugglers' Tales
Author: Tom Quinn
Publisher: David & Charles Publishers
Published: 1999
Total Pages: 192
ISBN-13: 9780715306963
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →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.
Smugglers of the West
Author: Rosemary Neering
Publisher: Heritage House Publishing Co
Published: 2011
Total Pages: 146
ISBN-13: 1926936914
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →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.
Ballad of the Whiskey Robber
Author: Julian Rubinstein
Publisher: John Murray
Published: 2013-02-28
Total Pages: 298
ISBN-13: 1848548265
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →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.
Scotland the Brave Land
Author: Stuart McHardy
Publisher: Luath Press Ltd
Published: 2013-07-22
Total Pages: 193
ISBN-13: 1909912255
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →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.
Maine Lobster Tales
Author: F. John McLaughlin
Publisher: AuthorHouse
Published: 2023-08-20
Total Pages: 41
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →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.
