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Publisher's Synopsis Para Handy has been sailing his way into the affections of generations of Scots since he first weighed anchor in the pages of the Glasgow Evening News nearly a hundred years ago. The Master Mariner and his crew - Dougie the Mate Macphail the Engineer Sunny Jim and The Tar - all play their part in evoking the irresistible atmosphere of a bygone age when puffers sailed between West Highland ports and the great city of Glasgow. This definitive edition contains all three collections published in the author's lifetime as well as a new story never previously published. Extensive notes accompany each story providing fascinating insights into colloquialisms place-names and historical events. This volume also includes a wealth of contemporary photographs depicting the harbours steamers and puffers from the age of the Vital Spark. This edition includes one further story which was discovered in 2001.
