Title: Of Salt and Sand
Author: Barnes, Michael
Published: 2012
Language: English
ISBN: 9781411466647
Publisher: Michael Barnes
Pages: 340
Extension: EPUB
Size: 834 KB
Subjects: Fiction, Literature, Mystery & Thrillers, World Fiction, Fiction Subjects, Literary Fiction, Fiction & Literature Classics, Thrillers, Irish Fiction, Occupations - Fiction, Nautical & Maritime Fiction, Other Mystery Categories, Espionage Thrillers, Irish Men, Sailors - Fiction, Sport Sailing & Yachting - Fiction, Traditional British Mysteries - Other, English, Irish, Scottish Fiction & Literature Classics
Categories: Fiction, Literature, Mystery & Thrillers, World Fiction, Fiction Subjects, Literary Fiction, Fiction & Literature Classics, Thrillers, Irish Fiction, Occupations - Fiction, Nautical & Maritime Fiction, Other Mystery Categories, Espionage Thrillers, Irish Men, Sailors - Fiction, Sport Sailing & Yachting - Fiction, Traditional British Mysteries - Other, English, Irish, Scottish Fiction & Literature Classics
This edition includes a modern introduction and a list of suggested further reading. The Riddle of the Sands is the first modern English espionage novel. Long before World War I, but in an atmosphere of growing mistrust between Britain and Germany, two English sailors stumble into a secret spying mystery on the treacherous and stormy mudflats of the German coast. They sail the Dulcibella into wild wind and weather, and enter a battle of wits with the sea as well as with the mysterious Herr Dollmann and his innocent daughter, Clara. Childers' narrative style is clear and uncomplicated, and his sailing adventure is a joy to read, still popular after one hundred years. He hauled spies and detectives into the twentieth century by favoring fact over romance and combined nineteenth-century adventure from Scott and Stevenson with schoolboy stories, Kipling's Empire, and prophecies of war.
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