Childers fought in the boer war and world war i serving in the artillery. Childers was caught by the british and executed by firing squad in dublin. This book is available for free download in a number of formats including epub, pdf, azw, mobi and more. Project gutenberg offers 62,125 free ebooks to download. The book had a very strong focus on sailing and a lot of text was spent describing yachting.
The riddle of the sands, by erskine childers, not only may have affected the course of historyit still thrills readers today. The riddle of the sands by erskine childers penguin. It has been made into featurelength films for both cinema and television. The first modern spy novel and a mustread for espionage junkies and chaps in scraps fans.
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