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The Riddle of the Sands Illustrated

The Riddle of the Sands Illustrated

Childers, Erskine

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ISBN13: 9798692794048
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Oct 2 2020
Pages: 372
Weight: 0.95
Height: 0.77 Width: 5.51 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
The Riddle of the Sands: A Record of Secret Service 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.[1] 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.[1] 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 accurate (often, from the author's own experience). 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 the character Davies is an unsurpassed master, and the descriptions of his feats are of abiding interest to yachting enthusiasts, quite apart from their role in the book's espionage plot.

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