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Language: English
Published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform, 2016
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- Title
- The Riddle of the Sands: A Record of Secret Service Recently Achieved
- Author
- Childers, Robert Erskine
- Publisher
- Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
- Publication year
- 2016
- Condition
- Very Good
- Dust jacket
- No Jacket
- Binding
- Paperback
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 1533677344
- ISBN 13
- 9781533677341
- Item weight
- 1.13 pounds
The Riddle of the Sands enjoyed immense popularity in the years before World War I. It was an early example of the espionage novel and was extremely influential in the genre of spy fiction. The novel has been adapted into feature-length films for both cinema and television. Taking inspiration from adventure novels of writers like Rider Haggard, that were a staple of Victorian Britain.
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About the Author
Erskine Childers was born in London in 1870. He died in Dublin before an Irish Free State firing squad in 1922. Between those dates he lived a life of mystery and adventure - the life of a man who has been variously called "traitor, murderer, saint, and martyr." An accomplished yachtsman, he wrote this book when he was thirty years old.
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