by Erskine Childers · Penguin Classics · libro de bolsillo · ISBN 9780141031279
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«The Riddle of the Sands» is Erskine Childers's spy novel, published by Penguin Classics in paperback (336 pages, in English).
A young sailor, Carruthers, joins his friend Davies on a yacht trip along the German coast. What seems like a hunting excursion conceals a spy mission: to discover a German fleet preparing to invade from the Frisian Islands. Aboard the Dulcibella, Carruthers and Davies navigate betrayals and sandbanks.
Originally published in 1903, the work carries the subtitle «A Record of Secret Service»; the full title is «The Riddle of the Sands: A Record of Secret Service».
For readers of spy and adventure classics, with an interest in sailing stories and the period before the First World War.
Erskine Barton Childers was an Irish writer, BBC correspondent and United Nations senior civil servant.
