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US: Penguin Books, 1903. Paperback. Good. The Riddle of the Sands is set during the long suspicious years leading up to the First World War. Bored with his life in London, a young man accepts an invitation to join a friend on a sailing holiday in the Baltic. A vivid exploration of the mysteries of seamanship, the story builds in excitement as together the two adventurers discover a German plot to invade England.
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Riddle of the Sands: A Record of Secret Service Paperback - 1998
by Erskine Childers
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I have read of men who, when forced by their calling to live for long periods in utter solitude - save for a few black faces - have made it a rule to dress regularly for dinner in order to maintain their self-respect and prevent a relapse into barbarism. It was in some such spirit, with an added touch of self-consciousness, that, at seven o'clock in the evening of 23rd September in a recent year, I was making my evening toilet in my chambers in Pall Mall. I thought the date and the place justified the parallel; to my advantage even; for the obscure Burmese administrator might well be a man of blunted sensibilities and coarse fibre, and at least he is alone with nature, while I - well, a young man of condition and fashion, who knows the right people, belongs to the right clubs, has a safe, possibly a brilliant, future in the Foreign Office - may be excused for a sense of complacent martyrdom, when, with his keen appreciation of the social calendar, he is doomed to the outer solitude of London in September.
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- Title Riddle of the Sands: A Record of Secret Service
- Author Erskine Childers
- Binding Paperback
- Edition Reprint
- Pages 288
- Volumes 1
- Language SPA
- Publisher Penguin Books, Limited (UK), London
- Date October 1998
- ISBN 9780140621433 / 0140621431
- Dimensions 7.13 x 4.37 x 0.43 in (18.11 x 11.10 x 1.09 cm)
- Reading level 1100
- Dewey Decimal Code FIC
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