**'The best story of adventure published in the last quarter of a century' John Buchan** **** **The perennial classic. Arguably the first spy novel ever written remains one of the finest examples of the genre to this day.** While on a duck-hunting holiday sailing in the Frisian Isles, Carruther
The Riddle of the Sands
โ Scribed by Childers, Erskine
- Book ID
- 106738863
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 198 KB
- Category
- Fiction
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{ NOV 2021 - Verified ebook for complete book description, cover, table of contents, separation of book (front/ back matter, parts, and chapters), and epub format error checking. } Paperback, 339 pages Published: 1903 Edition: Atlantic Books (2011) Greatest Books (amalgamated list of best books
Described by Ken Follett as "the first modern thriller", The Riddle of the Sands is the best-known sailing narrative and a true classic. It was recently ranked 37th in The Observer's list of the 100 Greatest Novels of the past 300 years. Winston Churchill even credited it for the Admiralty's decisio
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