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The Riddle of the Sands de Erskine Childers

The Riddle of the Sands

Autor Erskine Childers
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781497585492
ISBN-10: 149758549X
Pagini: 124
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 7 mm
Greutate: 0.18 kg
Editura: CREATESPACE

Descriere

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`About this coast... In the event of war it seems to me that every inch of it would be important, sand and all.' Executed in 1922 for his involvement in Irish republicanism, Childers in remembered most vividly for his ground-breaking spy novel, The Riddle of the Sands (1903). In spite of good prospects in the Foreign Office, the sardonic civil servant Carruthers is finding it hard to endure the emptiness and boredom of his life in London. He reluctantly accepts an invitation from a college friend, Davies, the shyly intrepid yachtsman, and joins him on a sailing holiday in the Baltic. The regeneration of Carruthers begins as he is initiated into the mysteries of seamanship, but the story builds in excitement as Carruthers and Davies discover a German plot to invade England. Like much contemporary British spy fiction, The Riddle of the Sands reflects the long suspicious years leading up to the First World War and the intricacy of its conception and its lucid detail make it a classic of its genre. This edition is complemented by a fine introduction which examines the novel in its political and historical context. ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, helpful notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more.

Recenzii

'A welcome reissue for the classic 1903 tale of espionage on and around the Frisian Islands...it comes with plenty of maps and photos...well worth a read.'
'A gem of a book...a good way of updating a classic'
'A gripping, entertaining adventure...new edition includes detailed chartlets of the Dutch coastline to help the reader follow the story, as well as evocative black and white photographs'
'It was a joy to have the chance to reread the tale of the enigmatic British sailor, Davies, and his university friend, Carruthers...'
'...you have the perfect book to curl up with on long winter's nights...'
'It's a great tale and the perfect book to curly up with on a dark Winter's evening.'
Additional to the original text are a dozen or so black and white photographs which capture most effectively the atmosphere of the Dutch and German Frisian islands.'

Notă biografică

Robert Erskine Childers was born in 1870 to an English father, Robert Caesar Childers, a famed professor of oriental languages at University College London, and his wife Anna, from the distinguished Barton family of Co Wicklow, Ireland. Both parents died from TB when he was a small boy, and Childers was brought up at his mother's family home. From Trinity College Cambridge, he went straight into the Civil Service as a House of Commons clerk, pursuing his first passion, for sailing, during the long parliamentary recesses. In 1899 he volunteered for service in the Boer War and wrote a popular account of his experiences, following this up in 1903 with The Riddle of the Sands. As a writer, he took up the cause of Irish Home Rule, and moved with his family to Ireland after distinguished service in the Royal Navy in the First World War. He was elected to the Dail, the Irish parliament, and was a delegate in the negotiations for the Anglo-Irish treaty of 1922. But the terms fell short of his hopes of full independence, and Childers joined the Republicans in the civil war that followed. He was arrested by the Free State government and court-martialled. He was executed by firing squad on 24 November 1922.

Caracteristici

The perfect partner to Joshua Slocum's Sailing Alone Around the World, also published by Adlard Coles Nautical