The Riddle of the Sands Illustrated

By: Childers, Erskine

The Riddle of the Sands: A Record of Secret Service is a patriotic British 1903 novel by Erskine Childers.It is a novel that "owes a lot to the wonderful adventure novels of writers like Rider Haggard, that were a staple of Victorian Britain"; perhaps more significantly, 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,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0914WWB3R
• ISBN13: 9798728481799
• Release Date: January 1
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 372 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.5" x 8.5"