Hashish: A Smugglers Tale (Penguin Classics)
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To see what your friends thought of this book, please sign up. To ask other readers questions about Hashish , please sign up. Lists with This Book. This book is not yet featured on Listopia. Feb 20, the gift rated it really liked it Shelves: Aug 11, Feliks rated it liked it Shelves: One of the most fun travelogues I've encountered. Monfried is a well-tempered writer who handles pragmatic details with elan and efficiency. Rich in detail; but never tiring.
Fine descriptions of small craft handling on the open sea--certainly some hair-raising adventures.
All manner of colorful, mendacious, unscrupulous, underhanded Mediterranean characters populate the adventure, as promised. There is occasional and startling violence. In the beginning of the tale, spectacular d One of the most fun travelogues I've encountered. In the beginning of the tale, spectacular descriptions of an unspoilt Greece; later come the landscapes around Suez and the Red Sea up close and personal. You can feel the grit between your toes as you listen to descriptions of Monfried moving contraband around from promontory to promontory.
It's a wonderful saga of ramshackle hijinks at sea --and really a primer on shady business dealings.
A Smuggler’s Tale
The typical maneuvers smugglers must always engage in, are well-laid out. A curious angle on human nature, for sure.
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Too real for the PC crowd, definitely. You'll come across casual remarks like 'all Somali boys can swim like fish' or 'all Greeks have a knack at smuggling to some degree'. So, you lot keep clear of this story or you'll suffer a case of the vapours. Aug 17, Yannis rated it really liked it. Jun 07, Eric rated it liked it.
While it was a long and laboured read, it was still quite enjoyable. I found the stories rather outrageous, and at times strangely modern, given the time when they were written, but all in all, it was a lovely book. Also, Henry de Monfreid narrated it all from memory, 60 odd years after the events happened. Advanced Search Find a Library.
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Hashish: A Smuggler's Tale (Penguin Classics) Paperback – December 18, Hashish was the drug of choice, and de Monfried writes of sailing to Suez with illegal cargos, dodging blockades and pirates. Henry de Monfreid () was an adventurer, seaman and smuggler. Hashish: a smuggler's tale / Henry de Monfreid ; translated by Helen Buchanan Bell ; introduction by James London ; New York: Penguin, - Penguin classics.
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Hashish : a smuggler's tale
You already recently rated this item. Who knew there was money to be made if you could corner the market on top shells from the Indian Ocean? Or how badly they could stink? Then he got the bright idea of dealing in the subject of his title and many trials ensue. He manages to survive, else how would he have written this autobiography?
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His observations of people and the attitudes of these declining colonial times were entertaining and enlightening. His honesty concerning his own behavior is surprising. He had no shame about his schemes and thoughts and shares them with the reader, such as mentioning how he snuck around his Greek host's house in the middle of the night trying to figure out how to get to the pretty servant girl or how to circumvent customs officials.
He's a cad, but a charming one. A Smuggler's Tale," "Hashish: Autobiography of a Red Sea Smuggler," and merely "Hashish" Now a few others have fessed up to the pleasure. This is as lucid and well-written a book as anything I've ever read. Trilogie du hachich by Henry de Monfreid.
First seeking his fortune by becoming a collector and merchant of the fabled Gulf pearls, he was then drawn into the shadowy world of arms trading, slavery and drugs. When he decided to set out on his own, transporting hashish from Piraeus to Suez, his daring and initiative compensated for his lack of knowledge and experience.