Art of Smuggling, The : The Gentleman Drug Trafficker Who Turned Britain On
Idioma: inglés
Editorial: Milo Books, United Kingdom, Ramsbottom, 2015
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- Título
- Art of Smuggling, The : The Gentleman Drug Trafficker Who Turned Britain On
- Autor
- Francis Morland
- Editorial
- Milo Books, United Kingdom, Ramsbottom
- Año de publicación
- 2015
- Estado
- Very Good
- Encuadernación
- Paperback
- Idioma
- inglés
- ISBN 10
- 190847985X
- ISBN 13
- 9781908479853
- Peso del artículo
- 508 gramos
- Dimensiones
- 160.0 x 240.0
The scion of a wealthy Quaker dynasty that made its fortune turning sheepskins into coats, Morland had a privileged youth: his father had a Harley Street clinic and his mother was a key figure in the art world and friend of Henry Moore and George Orwell. At 6ft 3in tall, good looking and well dressed, Francis skied for England, had a beautiful wife and children, a big house in south-west London, a farm house in Malta and the world at his feet.
But the Drug Squad were onto him, and in 1971 he was arrested taking delivery of 200 kilos of cannabis. He skipped bail and fled to the Balearics, where he fitted out a wooden ketch, loaded it with a ton and half of Moroccan resin and sailed the Atlantic to New York, using a sextant and dead reckoning. He was finally caught after a chase through the streets of Manhattan and was sentenced to six years in a federal penitentiary.
Morland came out to find most of his profits had been lost by a relative. His old friends shunned him and the family firm went bust. So he became a professional yachtsman-smuggler, plying his trade across the Mediterranean, mixing with everyone from shady Arab dope farmers to gangland bosses and alternating between periods of sudden wealth and bleak incarceration. In 1980, 1990 and again in 2000, he was caught and jailed for long terms. Now in his early eighties, he lives in 'pretty good poverty' running ceramic classes for ladies who lunch. His amazing story has never been told.
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The scion of a wealthy Quaker dynasty that made its fortune turning sheepskins into coats, Morland had a privileged youth: his father had a Harley Street clinic and his mother was a key figure in the art world and friend of Henry Moore and George Orwell. At 6ft 3in tall, good looking and well dressed, Francis skied for England, had a beautiful wife and children, a big house in south-west London, a farm house in Malta and the world at his feet.
But the Drug Squad were onto him, and in 1971 he was arrested taking delivery of 200 kilos of cannabis. He skipped bail and fled to the Balearics, where he fitted out a wooden ketch, loaded it with a ton and half of Moroccan resin and sailed the Atlantic to New York, using a sextant and dead reckoning. He was finally caught after a chase through the streets of Manhattan and was sentenced to six years in a federal penitentiary.
Morland came out to find most of his profits had been lost by a relative. His old friends shunned him and the family firm went bust. So he became a professional yachtsman-smuggler, plying his trade across the Mediterranean, mixing with everyone from shady Arab dope farmers to gangland bosses and alternating between periods of sudden wealth and bleak incarceration. In 1980, 1990 and again in 2000, he was caught and jailed for long terms. Now in his early eighties, he lives in 'pretty good poverty' running ceramic classes for ladies who lunch. His amazing story has never been told.
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