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Oceans of Rum
The Nova Scotia Banana Fleet in Rum-Runner Heaven
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Artikel-Nr:
9781897426760
Veröffentl:
2016
Erscheinungsdatum:
18.04.2016
Seiten:
286
Autor:
David Mossman
Gewicht:
272 g
Format:
226x152x13 mm
Sprache:
Englisch
Beschreibung:
David Mossman, a seventh-generation Canadian, was born in Rose Bay, Lunenburg County, Nova Scotia. As a geologist, he has consulted widely and taught geoscience most recently at Mount Alison University, New Brunswick, where he is research professor emeritus. In addition to numerous scientific papers, he has written biographies of noted geologists and articles on topics ranging from Nova Scotia gold, tidal phenomena, carbonaceous meteorites, and the trackways of extinct animals. His most recent book was Going Over: A Nova Scotian Soldier in World War I.
Prohibition, legislated in the U.S. in 1921, was intended to ban the manufacture, transport and sale of intoxicating liquor. However, it soon became obvious that successfully policing the entire coastline of the Pacific, Atlantic, and the Great Lakes was impossible. In eastern Canada the door was suddenly wide open for fishermen willing to make the remarkable switch to smuggling. Even with the repeal of Prohibition in 1933, rum-running remained a profitable venture in Atlantic Canada up until World War II.