Smuggling in the British Isles

Smuggling in the British Isles

EnglishPaperback / softback
Platt, Richard
The History Press Ltd
EAN: 9780752463599
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The term smuggling conjures up images of a sailor in long boots and a striped jersey, rolling barrels of brandy up a moonlit Cornish beach and into a hidden cave, while the excise men fruitlessly search in the wrong places. Although romanticised, this picture is not entirely inaccurate, and, because of high and unpopular taxes, smuggling was quite common in Britain during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Indeed, it is estimated that at one point import duty had been paid on only 20% of the tea drunk here, and there was so much illegally imported gin in Kent that people were using it to clean their windows. In Smuggling in the British Isles, maritime history specialist Richard Platt tells the full story of the smuggling trade, from who the smugglers were and why they did it to how contraband was transported and how they avoided detection. This compelling book will appeal to anyone with an interest in the sea and its history.

EAN 9780752463599
ISBN 0752463594
Binding Paperback / softback
Publisher The History Press Ltd
Publication date August 1, 2011
Pages 224
Language English
Dimensions 230 x 160 x 20
Country United Kingdom
Readership General
Authors Platt, Richard