The Riddle of the Sands

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  • ENGLISH

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  • 352

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  • 9780141190457

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  • PAPERBACK

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  • 2007

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    Erskine Childer’s gripping espionage thriller is set in the eerie seas and sands off the north coast of GermanyLanguishing one summer at the Foreign Office in London, Carruthers is rescued by an unexpected invitation to join Arthur Davies and the Dulcibella in the Baltic. A grouse-shooting party or a weekend at Cowes would have been more Carruther’s style. More disconcerti Erskine Childer’s gripping espionage thriller is set in the eerie seas and sands off the north coast of GermanyLanguishing one summer at the Foreign Office in London, Carruthers is rescued by an unexpected invitation to join Arthur Davies and the...  Read More

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    Erskine Childers

    Robert Erskine Childers DSC,universally known as Erskine Childers,was the author of the influential novel The Riddle of the Sands and an Irish nationalist who smuggled guns to Ireland in his sailing yacht Asgard. He was executed by the authorities of the nascent Irish Free State during the Irish Civil War. He was the son of British Orientalist scholar Robert Caesar Childers; the cousin of Hugh Childers and Robert Barton; and the father of the fourth President of Ireland, Erskine Hamilton Childers.

    Childers was a Boer War veteran and was called back to active duty at the start of World War One.

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