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The Vital Spark

The Vital Spark

Munro, Neil

Paperback

Mystery & ThrillerClassic FictionGeneral Fiction

ISBN10: 1604447400
ISBN13: 9781604447408
Publisher: Indoeuropeanpublishing.Com
Published: Jun 28 2012
Pages: 148
Weight: 0.43
Height: 0.34 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
The Vital Spark is a fictional Clyde puffer (small steamboat), created by Scottish writer Neil Munro. As its captain, the redoubtable Para Handy, often says: the smertest boat in the coastin' tred. Puffers seem to have been regarded fondly even before Munro began publishing his short stories in the Glasgow Evening News in 1905. This may not be surprising, for these small steamboats were then providing a vital supply link around the west coast and Hebrides islands of Scotland. The charming rascality of the stories went well beyond the reality of a commercial shipping business, but they brought widespread fame. They appeared in the newspaper over 20 years, were collected in book form by 1931, inspired the 1953 film The Maggie, and came out as three popular television series, dating from 1959 to 1995.

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