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The Riddle of the Sands - Softcover

Book 1 of 2: The Riddle of the Sands

Childers, Erskine

 
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Synopsis

Carruthers is summoned to the Baltic by his friend, an accomplished yachtsman, who reveals his suspicions concerning German activity in the North Frisian Islands

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Review

" This is a book of great renown. . . . Its beautifully sustained atmosphere . . . adds poetry, and . . . real mystery." -- Ian Fleming

This is a book of great renown. . . . Its beautifully sustained atmosphere . . . adds poetry, and . . . real mystery. Ian Fleming"

"This is a book of great renown. . . . Its beautifully sustained atmosphere . . . adds poetry, and . . . real mystery." --Ian Fleming

About the Author

Robert Erskine Childers (1870–1922), universally known as Erskine Childers, was the author of the influential novel Riddle of the Sands and an Irish nationalist, who 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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