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.
- ISBN13 9781841582276
- Publish Date 3 May 2002 (first published 19 October 1999)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 11 February 2016
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher Birlinn General
- Imprint Birlinn Ltd
- Edition New edition
- Format Paperback
- Pages 462
- Language English