by Erskine Childers · Penguin · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780140009057
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«The Riddle of the Sands» is Erskine Childers's spy novel, published by Penguin Books in paperback (336 pages, in English).
The first modern spy novel: a civil servant agrees to sail with an acquaintance along the German coast and ends up embroiled in an international intrigue. The novel combines pre-World War I distrust with an authentic sailing background, and recounts the discovery of a German plan to invade England.
Work originally published in 1903; this 1978 edition includes a foreword by Geoffrey Household and cover illustration by Ivan Allen.
For readers of classic spy novels and sailing stories, with an interest in pre-World War I Europe.
Erskine Barton Childers was an Irish writer, BBC correspondent and United Nations senior civil servant.
