unknown binding, 278 pages
English language
Published Dec. 30, 1967 by Hart-Davis.
The riddle of the sands
A record of secret service recently achieved, (The Mariners library) The Mariners library,
Robert Erskine Childers: The riddle of the sands (1967, Hart-Davis)
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Childers's lone masterpiece, THE RIDDLE OF THE SANDS, considered the first modern spy thriller, is recognisable as the brilliant forerunner of the realism of Graham Greene and John le Carre. Its unique flavour comes from its fine characterization,richly authentic background of inshore sailing and vivid evocation of the late 1890s - an atmosphere of mutual suspicion and intrigue that was soon to lead to war.
Subjects
- Secret service -- Fiction
- Sailing -- Fiction
- Great Britain -- History -- Invasions -- Fiction
- Frisian Islands -- Fiction