The Riddle of the Sands: A Record of Secret Service (Barnes & Noble Digital Library)

The Riddle of the Sands: A Record of Secret Service (Barnes & Noble Digital Library)

by Erskine Childers
Epub (Kobo), Epub (Adobe)
Publication Date: 13/03/2012

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This edition includes a modern introduction and a list of suggested further reading.


The Riddle of the Sands is the first modern English espionage novel. Long before World War I, but in an atmosphere of growing mistrust between Britain and Germany, two English sailors stumble into a secret spying mystery on the treacherous and stormy mudflats of the German coast. They sail the Dulcibella into wild wind and weather, and enter a battle of wits with the sea as well as with the mysterious Herr Dollmann and his innocent daughter, Clara. Childers' narrative style is clear and uncomplicated, and his sailing adventure is a joy to read, still popular after one hundred years. He hauled spies and detectives into the twentieth century by favoring fact over romance and combined nineteenth-century adventure from Scott and Stevenson with schoolboy stories, Kipling's Empire, and prophecies of war.

ISBN:
9781411466647
9781411466647
Category:
Classic fiction
Format:
Epub (Kobo), Epub (Adobe)
Publication Date:
13-03-2012
Language:
English
Publisher:
Barnes & Noble
Erskine Childers

Robert Erskine Childers was born in London in 1870. His parents both died when he was a child, and he was raised at his mother's family home in Ireland. In 1899 he volunteered for service in the Boer War and wrote a popular account of his experiences, following this up with The Riddle of the Sands (1903).

He moved to Ireland after WWI and was elected to the Irish parliament where he was a delegate in the negotiations for the Anglo-Irish treaty of 1922. When the terms fell short of full Irish independence, Childers joined the Republicans in the ensuing Civil War. He was arrested by the Free State government, court-martialled, and executed by firing squad in 1922. Ned Halley is an award-winning journalist

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