The Vital Spark by Neil Munro, Fiction, Classics, Action & Adventure
ONE SAVVY SCOT SKIPPEREver wonder what it was like to be the Captain of a Clyde Puffer -- that is, a steamship on the beautiful lochs of the Scots highlands at the beginning of the twentieth century? Enter now the captivating world of Captain Para Handy and the irascible crew of The Vital Spark, called by it's captain the best boat in the tread. Join Para Handy, (or, rather, Captain John Macfarlane, his real name) and his crew of characters, the wondrous Hurricane Jack, the effete engineer Dan Macphail, the superstitious ship's mate Dougie, Co…
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Weitere Autoren: Foulis, Hugh
- ISBN: 978-1-60664-617-5
- EAN: 9781606646175
- Produktnummer: 4496584
- Verlag: Aegypan
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2009
- Seitenangabe: 160 S.
- Masse: H23.5 cm x B15.7 cm x D1.3 cm 394 g
- Abbildungen: HC gerader Rücken kaschiert
- Gewicht: 394
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Neil Munro (1863 - 1930) was a Scottish journalist, newspaper editor, author and literary critic. He was a serious writer, but is now mainly known for his humorous short stories, originally written under the pen name Hugh Foulis. The best known of these stories are about the fictional Clyde puffer the Vital Spark and her captain Para Handy but they also include stories about the waiter and kirk beadle Erchie MacPherson and the traveling drapery salesman Jimmy Swan. They were originally published in the Glasgow Evening News, but collections were published as books. A key figure in Scottish literary circles, Munro was a friend of the writers J. M. Barrie, John Buchan, Robert Bontine Cunninghame Graham and Joseph Conrad and the artists Edward A. Hornel, George Houston, Pittendrigh MacGillivray and Robert Macaulay Stevenson. He was an early promoter of the works of both Conrad and Rudyard Kipling.
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