The author and historian Rick James discusses his new book Don’t Never Tell Nobody Nothin’ No How: The Real Story of West Coast Rum Running (Harbour Publishing, 2018), with Joseph Planta.

Don’t Never Tell Nobody Nothin’ No How: The Real Story of West Coast Rum Running by Rick James (Harbour Publishing, 2018). Click to buy this book from Amazon.ca: Don’t Never Tell Nobody Nothin’ No How

Text of introduction by Joseph Planta:

I am Planta: On the Line, in Vancouver, British Columbia, at TheCommentary.ca.

Rick James joins me again. He has written a fascinating, often riotous book Don’t Never Tell Nobody Nothin’ No How: The Real Story of West Coast Rum Running. It’s a lively book about the smuggling of rum into the United States where there was prohibition. Sure, it was all relatively civilised, Canadians are polite after all, but there were hijackings, shootouts and murder. The book is well researched and there’s a lot of astute observations comparing the prohibition of alcohol to the regulation of drugs today. Rick James is a writer, maritime historian, and photographer. His work has been published in Canada’s History Magazine, The Sea Chest, Pacific Yachting, and Western Mariner. He was last on the program when Raincoast Chronicles 21 was published. He lives in Royston, BC where he joins me from now. The book is from Harbour Publishing. Please welcome back to the Planta: On the Line program, Rick James; Mr. James, good morning.

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