Sea

The Riddle of the Sands

by Erskine Childers

Two young Englishmen go duck-shooting in a small yacht among the sandbanks of the Frisian coast and find the Germans rehearsing something they should not. Published in 1903, it was read as a warning and taken seriously in Whitehall. The fog, the tides and the charts are as much a part of the plot as the spies.

The librarian

Read it in the Library After Dark Or read it as plain text

Reading time

About 7 hr 20 min

Where to find it

The secret bookcase in the west wing

Edition

Project Gutenberg, eBook #2360. In the public domain in the United States.