Riddle of the Sands

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-- Classics -- THE RIDDLE OF THE SANDS is the first great modern spy story. It is an account of the adventures of the effete Foreign Office high-flyer Carruthers and his friend Davies as they explore the mudflats and sandbanks of the Friesian Islands at the beginning of the Twentieth Century. What they find there, and its implications for the safety of England make gripping reading.
Set against the Anglo-German Great Naval Race of the early years of the century, THE RIDDLE OF THE SANDS, published in 1903, had an immense influence on both the official and the popular imagination of its time.

Anglophile Classics