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PUBLISHER: Mainstream Publishing

FORMAT: Paperback

ISBN: 9781840180718

RRP: £7.99

PAGES: 160

PUBLICATION DATE:
May 7, 1998

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Polly: the True Story Behind Whisky Galore

Roger Hutchinson

Early on a wartime winter’s morning in 1941, an 8,000-ton cargo ship loaded with whisky ran aground in the beautiful and treacherous seas of the Outer Hebrides. The events which followed became the stuff of folklore, and resulted in the famous fiction of Whisky Galore. But what really happened …?

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