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While on a sailing trip in the Baltic Sea, two young adventurers-turned-spies uncover a secret German plot to invade England. Written by Childers-who served in the Royal Navy during World War I-as a wake-up call to the British government to attend to its North Sea defenses, The Riddle of the Sands accomplished that task and has been considered a classic of espionage literature ever since, praised as much for its nautical action as for its suspenseful spycraft.
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- PublisherImprint Society
- Publication date1971
- ISBN 10 0229986390
- ISBN 13 9780229986392
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages278
- EditorErskine Childers
- IllustratorJohn O'Connor
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The Riddle of the Sands: A Record of Secret Service
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Book Description Hardcover. Condition: Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. John O'Connor (illustrator). Good+: shows light wear to the extremities; faint but pervasive soilings and smudges to the panels and backstrip; faint foxing to the fore-edge and bottom edge; slight darkening to the backstrip; a single page has been dog-eared; the binding leans slightly but remains secure; the text is clean. Free of any underlining, hi-lighting or marginalia or marks in the text. Free of ownership names, dates, addresses, notations, inscriptions, stamps, or labels. A good reading copy, structurally sound and tightly bound, showing light wear and a number of minor cosmetic imperfections. NOT a Remainder, Book-Club, or Ex-Library. 8vo. (7.55 x 5 x 1.2 inches). Language: English. Weight: 14 ounces. First published in 1903. This is the reprint edition published by Rupert Hart-Davis in 1955 and later taken over by the sailing publisher Adlard Coles in 1971; this is the fifth printing of the new edition. Hardback: Lacks DJ. Erskine Childers (1870-1922) , was an English-born Irish writer, politician, and soldier. His works included this influential novel The Riddle of the Sands. Starting as an ardent Unionist, he later 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. The Riddle of the Sands, which enjoyed immense popularity in the years before World War I, is an early example of the espionage novel and was extremely influential in the genre of spy fiction. It has been made into feature-length films for both cinema and television. The novel owes much to the adventure novels of writers like Rider Haggard, that were a staple of Victorian Britain. It was a spy novel that established a formula that included a mass of verifiable detail, which gave authenticity to the story. This was a technique that would be put to use to good effect by the likes of John Buchan, Ian Fleming, John le Carré and many others. All of the physical background is completely authentic the various Frisian islands and towns named in the book actually exist and the descriptions of them is accurate and authentic. The same is true for the various "sands" of the title vast areas which are flooded at high tide but become mudflats at ebb. Navigating a small boat under these conditions requires a specialized kind of skilled seamanship, of which Childer's character Davies is an unsurpassed master, and the descriptions of his feats were to prove of abiding interest to yachting enthusiasts, quite apart from their role in the book's espionage plot. Childers's book remained the most powerful contribution of any English writer to the debate on Britain's alleged military unpreparedness for the looming wars with Germany." It was a notable influence on John Buchan, and on Ken Follett, who described it as "an open-air adventure thriller about two young men who stumble upon a German armada preparing to invade England." Follett has also called it "the first modern thriller". Rhodri Jeffreys-Jones listed The Riddle of the Sands as one of the ten classic spy novels, in The Guardian's best spy novel list and Robert McCrum of The Observer included it in his list of the 100 greatest novels of all time. The Daily Telegraph has cited the book as the second best spy novel of all time, after Rudyard Kipling's classic 'Kim'. ; The Mariners Library; Book Club Edition; Vol. 29; Small 8vo 7½" - 8" tall; 278 pages Later Edition (1955); 5th Printing (1974). Seller Inventory # 57718
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