The Black Joke
by Mowat, Farley
pub. by McClelland and Stewart - 1973 isbn 0-7710-6649-x
(first published in 1963 by Little Brown) - - 218p - - fiction
A work of fiction. About fishermen in Newfoundland and on the tiny French
Islands of St. Pierre and Miquelon, the last French possessions in N. America,
which figured prominently in the liquor smuggling trade during Prohibition in USA.
Some good description of the area and the the watercraft there. This story is set
in the 1930s during the liquor smuggling.
Classified young adult, but a good read anyway.
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