Growing up in BC during the 1920s, young Fraser Miles never knew anything but poverty. There was no social stigma to being poor - most of his neighbours were not much better off - but in his late teens Miles began to look for a way to finance a career in the growing field of radio electronics.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.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Harbour Publishing Company, The Limited
ISBN-10
1550170694
ISBN-13
9781550170696
eBay Product ID (ePID)
2233386
Product Key Features
Book Title
Slow Boat on Rum Row
Author
Fraser Miles
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Topic
Canada / General, General, Ships & Shipbuilding / History
Publication Year
1992
Genre
Biography & Autobiography, Transportation, History
Number of Pages
200 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
9in
Item Height
0.8in
Item Width
6in
Item Weight
21.2 Oz
Additional Product Features
Edition Description
Unabridged Edition
Copyright Date
1992
Intended Audience
Trade
Illustrated
Yes
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