Paperback. £ Para Handy (The collected stories from The Vital Spark, In Highland Harbours with Para Handy and Hurricane Jack of the Vital Spark; with eighteen previously uncollected stories) Neil (Hugh Foulis); introduced and annotated by Brian D. Osborne and Ronald Armstrong Munro. Neil (Hugh Foulis); introduc/5(). The Herring – A Gossip appears in the collection of Para Handy stories, In Highland Harbours with Para Handy (). Captain of the Vital Spark, a Clyde Puffer (small cargo boat) working between Glasgow and the ports of Scotland’s West Coast, Para Handy was the great comic creation of Neil Munro ( – ). As the title suggests, The Herring – A Gossip is a fictional conversation rather than a bltadwin.ruted Reading Time: 8 mins. Para Handy is one these iconic Scottish books with a small number of characters that you get to know as the story goes on. I always get the feeling that I knew someone similar. Based around a small Puffer (small coastal flat bottom boat) that transports anything from coal to animals etc, etc mainly from the Scottish mainland to the the Islands and and ports around the west coast/5().
Neil Munro, scottish journalist, newspaper editor, author and literary critic () This ebook presents «The Vital Spark», from Neil Munro. A dynamic table of contents enables to jump directly to the chapter selected. Table of Contents About this book PARA HANDY, MASTER MARINER THE PRIZE CANARY THE MALINGERER WEE TEENY. Neil Munro Was Born In He Followed A Career In Journalism, Eventually Becoming Editor Of The Glasgow Evening News. He Achieved Great Success As A Poet And Novelist, Writing Masterpieces Of Historical Fiction Such As John Splendid And The New Road As Well As The Humorous Tales Of Para Handy, Erchie And Jimmy Swan. The Tales of Para Handy: Created by Neil Munro. With Gregor Fisher, Rikki Fulton, Sean Scanlan, Andrew Fairlie. Comedic adventures of a Clyde puffer ship.
Para Handy, the anglicised Gaelic nickname of the fictional character Peter Macfarlane, is a character created by the journalist and writer Neil Munro in a series of stories published in the Glasgow Evening News between 19under the pen name of Hugh Foulis. Para Handy is the crafty Gaelic skipper of the Vital Spark, a Clyde puffer. Neil Munro was born in He followed a career in journalism, eventually becoming editor of the Glasgow Evening News. He achieved great success as a poet and novelist, writing masterpieces of historical fiction such as John Splendid and The New Road as well as the humorous tales of Para Handy, Erchie and Jimmy Swan. Neil Munro died in Para Handy. by. Neil Munro. · Rating details · ratings · 22 reviews. 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.
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