Description

Birlinn, [Published date: 2012]. Hardcover, xxi, 266 pp; 21 cm; First edition thus (reissue with new introduction). Illustrated dust jacket by Paul Bommer. Originally published in London by Chatto & Windus, 1947. Some text in Scottish Gaelic. Includes glossary of Gaelic expressions. Very good in very good dust jacket. Orange cloth covered boards with gold lettering on spine. Light bumping and scuffing to edges and corners of covers. Binding tight. Pages clean and unmarked. Dust jacket has a few tiny nicks and light creasing along edges. light overall scuffing to jacket as well. Now in an archival quality (removable) Brodart cover. Not Ex-library. [from back cover] Life is hard for the inhabitants of the remote Hebridean islands of Great and Little Todday. War has brought rationing, but when the whisky runs out too, morale hits rock bottom. So when the SS Politician runs aground with a cargo of fifty thousand cases of 'the water of life', the islanders can't believe their luck. First published in 1947 and known to millions from the classic Ealing comedy released in 1949, Whisky Galore is one of the most entertaining novels ever written in English. This special edition includes an introduction and additional notes by award-winning author and journalist Roger Hutchinson exploring the real events, places, and characters which inspired Mackenzie to produce his comic masterpiece.