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Author Childers, Erskine, 1870-1922.

Title The riddle of the sands : a record of secret service / Erskine Childers ; edited with an introduction by David Trotter ; notes by Anna Snaith
Published Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1998

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Description 1 online resource (xxii, 277 pages)
Series Oxford world's classics
Oxford world's classics (Oxford University Press)
Contents Cover; Contents; Introduction; Note on the Text; Select Bibliography; A Chronology of Robert Erskine Childers; THE RIDDLE OF THE SANDS; Explanatory Notes; Nautical Glossary
Summary 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. The story builds in excitement as two young men on a sailing holiday discover a German plot to invade England. This edition is complemented by a fine introduction which examines the novel in its political and historical context
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (page xx)
Notes English
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Subject Secret service -- Fiction
Sailing -- Fiction
FICTION -- General.
Invasions of Great Britain
Sailing
Secret service
SUBJECT Great Britain -- History -- Invasions -- Fiction
Frisian Islands -- Fiction
Subject Europe -- Frisian Islands
Great Britain
Genre/Form Sea stories
Sea stories
Alternative histories (Fiction)
Action and adventure fiction
Fiction
History
Alternative histories (Fiction)
Adventure fiction.
Sea stories.
Alternative histories (Fiction)
Action and adventure fiction.
Form Electronic book
Author Trotter, David, 1951-
Snaith, Anna
ISBN 9780191563706
0191563706
9780191503351
0191503355