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The Riddle of the Sands - Macmillan Collector's Library (Hardback)

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Hardback 400 Pages
Published: 19/10/2017
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One of the first great spy novels, The Riddle of the Sands is set during the long, suspicious years leading up to the First World War. In spite of good prospects in the Foreign Office, sardonic civil servant Carruthers is finding it hard to endure the boredom of his life in London. He accepts an invitation from a college friend, Davies, a shyly intrepid yachtsman, and joins him on a sailing holiday in the Baltic, and there, amidst the sunshine and bright blue seas, they discover a German plot to invade England . . .

Like much contemporary British spy fiction, The Riddle of the Sands reflects the Anglo-German rivalry of the early twentieth century, and the intricacy of the book’s conception and its lucid detail make it a classic of its genre.

This Macmillan Collector’s Library edition of Erskine Childers' The Riddle of the Sands features maps drawn from Childers’ originals and an afterword by writer and journalist Ned Halley.

Designed to appeal to the booklover, the Macmillan Collector's Library is a series of beautiful gift editions of much loved classic titles. Macmillan Collector's Library are books to love and treasure.

Publisher: Pan Macmillan
ISBN: 9781509843152
Number of pages: 400
Weight: 222 g
Dimensions: 157 x 101 x 23 mm

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“A FASCINATING TALE”

A really fascinating and plausible tale that that was hard to put down. The descriptions were so detailed that the story could be followed on a map. The novel also brought to light life as it was 110 years ago.

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