The Riddle Of The Sands

Author : Erskine Childers
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Riddle of the Sands Illustrated written by Erskine Childers and published by . This book was released on 2021-01-02 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Riddle of the Sands: A Record of Secret Service is a 1903 novel by Erskine Childers. The book, which enjoyed immense popularity in the years before World War I, is an early example of the espionage novel and was extremely influential in the genre of spy fiction. It has been made into feature-length films for both cinema and television.The novel ""owes a lot to the wonderful adventure novels of writers like Rider Haggard, that were a staple of Victorian Britain"".[1] It was a spy novel that ""established a formula that included a mass of verifiable detail, which gave authenticity to the story - the same ploy that would be used so well by John Buchan, Ian Fleming, John le Carré and many others.""[1] All of the physical background is completely authentic - the various Frisian islands and towns named in the book actually exist and the descriptions of them accurate (often, from the author's own experience). The same is true for the various ""sands"" of the title - vast areas which are flooded at high tide but become mudflats at ebb. Navigating a small boat under these conditions requires a specialized kind of skilled seamanship - of which the character Davies is an unsurpassed master, and the descriptions of his feats are of abiding interest to yachting enthusiasts, quite apart from their role in the book's espionage plot."

Author : George E. Stanley
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 0689853769
Total Pages : 68 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Riddle of the Stolen Sand written by George E. Stanley and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2003-02 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Detectives are looking for clues to clear Mr. Roper of charges that he stole the oysters.

Author : Sam Llewellyn
Publisher : Sheridan House, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 9781574090895
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Shadow in the Sands written by Sam Llewellyn and published by Sheridan House, Inc.. This book was released on 1999 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: a continuation of the celebrated story of intrigue, treachery and adventure at sea begun in Erskine Childers' epoch-making thriller The Riddle of the Sands, this affectionate tribute to the world's first spy novel is a brilliantly original, utterly enthralling thriller in its own right.

Author : Erskine Childers
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0194632016
Total Pages : 125 pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Riddle of the Sands - With Audio Level 5 Oxford Bookworms Library written by Erskine Childers and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2014-09-30 with total page 125 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A level 5 Oxford Bookworms Library graded reader. This version includes an audio book: listen to the story as you read. Retold for Learners of English by Peter Hawkins. When Carruthers joins his friend Arthur Davies on his yacht Dulcibella, he is expecting a pleasant sailing holiday in the Baltic Sea. But the holiday turns into an adventure of a different kind. He and Davies soon find themselves sailing in the stormy waters of the North Sea, exploring the channels and sandbanks around the German Frisian Islands, and looking for a secret – a secret that could mean great danger for England. Erskine Childers’ novel, published in 1903, was the first great modern spy story, and is still as exciting to read today as it was a hundred years ago.

Author : Joseph Rosenbloom
Publisher : Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 9780806962528
Total Pages : 132 pages
Book Rating : 4.26/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Zaniest Riddle Book in the World written by Joseph Rosenbloom and published by Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.. This book was released on 1985 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Riddles for children, including "What is green and goes slam, slam, slam, slam?" (A four-door pickle) and "What snack do robots serve at parties?" (Assorted nuts.).

Author : Kevin Sands
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1534484574
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.73/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Traitor's Blade written by Kevin Sands and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2022-06-07 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1666, after four months away, friends Christopher Rowe, Tom, and Sally return to London triumphantly but, guided by coded riddles, face a conspiracy that threatens Christopher, as well as the King himself.

Author : Ranulph Fiennes
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780451175779
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Atlantis of the Sands written by Ranulph Fiennes and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Jackson Riddle
Publisher : WestBow Press
ISBN 13 : 1664211098
Total Pages : 246 pages
Book Rating : 4.94/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Riddle in the Sand written by Jackson Riddle and published by WestBow Press. This book was released on 2020-12-01 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Is idol worship ever a good thing? Perhaps, if your secular idol makes you feel closer to God? But can Jimmy Buffett’s music really have anything to do with Jesus? The answers depend on how you reconcile one influence with the other, and whether the process interferes with other sacred relationships, such as your marriage. Riddle in the Sand tells the story of a young married couple searching for these answers. Jackson and Maggie hope to find them while vacationing on the Texas Gulf Coast, but instead they are roiled by forces of nature on land and sea. An eccentric cast of locals in the village and a killer hurricane in the Gulf of Mexico bring both comical and harrowing adventures. Finally, a cathartic encounter with a surprise visitor helps them all to comprehend the true foundation of enduring relationships, and the ultimate question in life.

Author : Erskine Childers
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 9780194792318
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.15/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Oxford Bookworms Library: Stage 5: The Riddle of the Sands written by Erskine Childers and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2008-01-24 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Word count 22,885

Author : Nicholas Allen
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 019885787X
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ireland, Literature, and the Coast written by Nicholas Allen and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2020-11-05 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ireland is home to one of the world's great literary and artistic traditions. This book reads Irish literature and art in context of the island's coastal and maritime cultures, setting a diverse range of writing and visual art in a fluid panorama of liquid associations that connect Irish literature to an archipelago of other times and places.