by Erskine Childers · Oxford University Press España, S.A. · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780194230728
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«The Riddle of the Sands» is Erskine Childers's spy novel, published by Oxford University Press in paperback (112 pages, in English).
Carruthers expects a pleasant sailing trip in the Baltic with his friend Davies, owner of the yacht Dulcibella; however, the voyage takes them to the dangerous waters of the North Sea, where they explore channels and sandbanks of the German Frisian Islands in search of a secret that threatens England.
Novel originally published in 1903, adapted by Peter Hawkins for the Oxford Bookworms Library collection, level 5 (1800 words).
Aimed at students of English as a foreign language, with a recommended reading level from age 17.
Erskine Barton Childers was an Irish writer, BBC correspondent and United Nations senior civil servant.
