Slow Boat on Rum Row (First Edition)
Language: English
Published by Harbour, Madeira Park, BC, 1992
- First Edition
- Hardcover
- Used
Seller: Purpora Books, Comox, BC, CanadaPurpora Books
AbeBooks seller since August 30, 1997
Condition: Used - Near fine
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Former owner return address label on front past down. Documents the men and ships of a little-known period in west coast history. 270 pages ith a few B&W photos and list of Canadian Rum Running Ships 1922-1933.
Seller Inventory # 22547
- Title
- Slow Boat on Rum Row (First Edition)
- Author
- Miles, Fraser
- Publisher
- Harbour, Madeira Park, BC
- Publication year
- 1992
- Condition
- Near Fine
- Dust jacket
- Near Fine Plus
- Binding
- Hard Cover in Dust Jacket
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 1550170694
- ISBN 13
- 9781550170696
- Edition
- First Edition.
- Seller catalogs
- Nautical
Not long after he was hired as radio operator on the Ruth B, the young man noticed that the alleged fishpacker was packing anything but fish. These were the Prohibition years; there was less money in freezing herring than there was in smuggling liquor to the thirsty multitudes south of the border.
Slow Boat on Rum Row begins as a fascinating memoir of Fraser Miles' youth in the fledgling community of Mission on the Fraser River, a rugged milieu where beachcombing and cougar hunting were more important than high school in teaching a boy the hard facts of survival.
Miles' account of his years on the rumboats, always one step, ahead of the law, is an exciting story of survival at sea. It is also a valuable addition to an episode of coast history that is little documented. After all, "rum runners, as a group," Miles writes, "made the Sphinx sound like a chatterbox."
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Purpora Books
Comox, BC, Canada
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