The Riddle of the Sands
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The Riddle of the Sands is a 1903 novel by Erskine Childers. The book, 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 a lot to the wonderful 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 - the same ploy that would be used so well by John Buchan, Ian Fleming, John le Carré and many others." Carruthers, a minor official in the Foreign Office, is contacted by an acquaintance, Davies, asking him to join in a yachting holiday in the Baltic Sea. Carruthers agrees, as his other plans for a holiday have fallen through. He arrives to find that Davies has a small sailing boat (the vessel is named Dulcibella, a reference to Childers's own sister of that name), not the comfortable crewed yacht that he expected. However, Carruthers agrees to go on the trip and joins Davies in Flensburg on the Baltic, whence they head for the Frisian Islands, off the coast of Germany. [... ]
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British
British -- Frisian Islands -- Fiction
Classic Literature
Detective and mystery fiction
Electronic books
Espionage
Espionage -- Fiction
Fantasy
Fiction
Frisian Islands -- Fiction
Great Britain -- History -- Invasions -- Fiction
Historical fiction
History
Intelligence service
Intelligence service -- Fiction
Invasions
Literature
Political fiction
Political science
Political science -- Fiction
Romance fiction
Science fiction
Sea stories
Sea stories -- Fiction
Sound recordings
Spy fiction
Suspense fiction
Thriller
Thrillers (Fiction)
World War, 1914-1918
World War, 1914-1918 -- Fiction
Audiobooks
British
British -- Frisian Islands -- Fiction
Classic Literature
Detective and mystery fiction
Electronic books
Espionage
Espionage -- Fiction
Fantasy
Fiction
Frisian Islands -- Fiction
Great Britain -- History -- Invasions -- Fiction
Historical fiction
History
Intelligence service
Intelligence service -- Fiction
Invasions
Literature
Political fiction
Political science
Political science -- Fiction
Romance fiction
Science fiction
Sea stories
Sea stories -- Fiction
Sound recordings
Spy fiction
Suspense fiction
Thriller
Thrillers (Fiction)
World War, 1914-1918
World War, 1914-1918 -- Fiction
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The Riddle of the Sands [electronic resource] / Ryan Desmond and Erskine Childers
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The riddle of the sands [sound recording] / Erskine Childers
The Riddle of the Sands [electronic resource] / Ryan Desmond and Erskine Childers
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