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The Riddle of the Sands

The Riddle of the Sands

Erskine Childers

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NATAL PUBLISHING, LLC
Año de edición:
2026
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ISBN:
9798256034399
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Widely heralded as the blueprint for the modern espionage thriller, The Riddle of the Sands by Erskine Childers is a gripping, highly atmospheric masterpiece of political suspense. The narrative unfolds through the eyes of Carruthers, a bored British Foreign Office minor official, who joins his eccentric, fiercely independent acquaintance, Davies, on a yachting holiday aboard the modest Dulcibella. What begins as a leisurely sailing voyage quickly transforms into a perilous investigative mission as the duo navigates the treacherous, fog-enshrouded shoals of Germany’s Frisian Islands. Together, they uncover a clandestine, meticulously engineered plot by the German Empire to launch a surprise naval invasion of England. Combining hyper-realistic nautical detail with intense geopolitical anxiety, Childers’s prophetic Edwardian novel not only captivated public imagination upon its 1903 release but also fundamentally influenced British naval defense policy and birthed the modern spy fiction genre.

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