In Highland Harbors with Para Handy by Neil Munro, Fiction, Classics, Action & Adventure

ON A CLYDE PUFFER

Get ready for charm and whimsy with the sweetness and bite of twenty-year-old single malt Scotch.

There's a new cook named Sunny Jim on the steamer The Vital Spark in this collection of droll tales of the Scots characters.

This is a ship full of wonderful characters. The Vital Spark is a "Clyde Puffer" carrying goods from Glasgow to the dreamy lochs and misty hills of the Highlands. Captained by Peter Macfarlaine -- nicknamed Para Handy -- "the smertest boat in the tred" is peopled by the likes of pompous engineer Dan Macphail, superstitious Dougie the ship's-mate and The Tar -- and featuring visits by Hurricane Jack and other odd folk.

Puff along with Para Handy and company through tales like "Christmas on the Vital Spark," "Para Handy's Pup," and "A Vegetarian Experiment" (with a remarkable recipe for stone soup) in this collection of delightful Scottish tales.