The diary of a rum-runner
By: by Alastair Moray
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Company
Published: 1929
Place of publication: Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 272
Subjects: Diaries; Prohibition; Liquor industry; Sailors; Biography; Smugglers; Transatlantic voyages; Alcoholic beverage industry; Smuggling; Cask (Schooner)
Other titles: Diary of a rumrunner; Rum-runner.
Description: "During Prohibition (1920- 1933) it was illegal in the United States to sell, manufacture, or transport liquor. It was not illegal to buy or drink it-and America was thirsty! In September 1923 Scotsman Alastair Moray set out from Glasgow to the United States on board the 187-foot, four-masted schooner Cask loaded with thousands of cases of fine Scotch whiskey. The trip that was supposed to take three-months lasted eleven, and Moray detailed each day's activity in brilliant fashion."--