Free Download Richard Platt, "Smuggling in the British Isles: A History Ed 2" English | ISBN: 0752463594 | 2011 | 224 pages | EPUB | 302 KB 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