The Riddle of the Sands
The Riddle of the Sands: A Record of Secret Service is an early example of the espionage novel, with a strong underlying theme of militarism. Carruthers, a minor official in the Foreign Office is contacted by an acquaintance, Davies, asking him to join in a yachting holiday in the German Frisian islands. Carruthers agrees, as his other plans for a holiday have fallen through. He arrives to find that Davies has a small sailing boat, not the comfortable crewed yacht that he expected. Davies gradually reveals that he suspects that the Germans are undertaking something sinister in the area
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-1-61720-132-5
- EAN: 9781617201325
- Produktnummer: 17661505
- Verlag: Smk Books
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2011
- Seitenangabe: 274 S.
- Masse: H22.9 cm x B15.2 cm x D1.6 cm 425 g
- Abbildungen: Paperback
- Gewicht: 425
Über den Autor
Robert Erskine Childers DSC (25 June 1870 - 24 November 1922), universally known as Erskine Childers, was a British-born Irish writer, whose works included the influential novel The Riddle of the Sands. He became a supporter of Irish Republicanism and smuggled guns into Ireland in his sailing yacht Asgard. He was executed by the authorities of the nascent Irish Free State during the Irish Civil War. He was the son of British Orientalist scholar Robert Caesar Childers; the cousin of Hugh Childers and Robert Barton; and the father of the fourth President of Ireland, Erskine Hamilton Childers.
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