Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dust-wrapper. Particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Physical description; 397 pages : illustrations, maps ; 16 cm. Notes; First published in 1903; this edition first published by Collector's Library in 2008; reissued by Macmillan Collector's Library in 2017. Contains bibliographical references. Subjects; Childers, Erskine 1870-1922. Spy stories, English. 1 Kg.

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T�tulo: The riddle of the sands : a record of secret service recently achieved / Erskine Childers ; with an afterword by Ned Halley
Editor: London : Macmillan Collector's Library
Fecha de publicaci�n: 2017
Idioma: Ingl�s
ISBN 10: 1509843159
ISBN 13: 9781509843152
Encuadernaci�n: Encuadernaci�n de tapa dura
Edici�n: Fifth Edition.

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Erskine Childers' gripping spy classic in a beautiful collector's edition.

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Robert Erskine Childers was born in 1870 to an English father, Robert Caesar Childers, a famed professor of oriental languages at University College London, and his wife Anna, from the distinguished Barton family of Co Wicklow, Ireland. Both parents died from TB when he was a small boy, and Childers was brought up at his mother's family home. From Trinity College Cambridge, he went straight into the Civil Service as a House of Commons clerk, pursuing his first passion, for sailing, during the long parliamentary recesses. In 1899 he volunteered for service in the Boer War and wrote a popular account of his experiences, following this up in 1903 with The Riddle of the Sands. As a writer, he took up the cause of Irish Home Rule, and moved with his family to Ireland after distinguished service in the Royal Navy in the First World War. He was elected to the Dail, the Irish parliament, and was a delegate in the negotiations for the Anglo-Irish treaty of 1922. But the terms fell short of his hopes of full independence, and Childers joined the Republicans in the civil war that followed. He was arrested by the Free State government and court-martialled. He was executed by firing squad on 24 November 1922.

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