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The riddle of the sands : a record of secret service
Childers, Erskine, 1870-1922.

Publisher:	Penguin Bks,
Pub date:	1978.
Pages:	326 p.
ISBN:	0140009051
Item info:	6 copies available at CITY OF FAIRFAX REGIONAL, GEORGE MASON REGIONAL, KINGS PARK, and TYSONS-PIMMIT REGIONAL. 7 copies total in all locations.

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Table of Contents

Oxford World's Classics	ii
Introduction	vii
Note on the Text	xix
Select Bibliography	xx
A Chronology of Robert Erskine Childers	xxi
Preface to the Present Edition	2
Preface to the Original Edition	3
Note	5
Chapter I the Letter	11
Chapter II the Dulcibella	17
Chapter III Davies	28
Chapter IV Retrospect	36
Chapter IV Retrospect	43
Chapter IV Retrospect	50
Chapter IV Retrospect	56
Chapter VIII the Theory	67
Chapter IX I Sign Articles	77
Chapter X His Chance	85
Chapter XI the Pathfinders	92
Chapter XII My Initiation	99
Chapter XII My Initiation	108
Chapter XIV the First Night in the Islands	113
Chapter XV Bensersiel	120
Chapter XVI Commander Von Brüning	126
Chapter XVI Commander Von Brüning	138
Chapter XVIII Imperial Escort	148
Chapter XIX the Rubicon	153
Chapter XX the Little Drab Book	164
Chapter XX the Little Drab Book	173
Chapter XXII the Quartette	186
Chapter XXIII a Change of Tactics	196
Chapter XXIII a Change of Tactics	207
Chapter XXIII a Change of Tactics	220
Chapter XVII the Seven Siels	230
Chapter XXVII the Luck of the Stowaway	240
Chapter XXVII the Luck of the Stowaway	252
Epilogue by the Editor	260
Explanatory Notes	269
Nautical Glossary	275

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key:	00345973
ISBN:	0140009051
ISBN:	0141181656 (pbk.)
Local Dewey call num:	FIC CHI
Local call number:	61 RUSH
Personal Author:	Childers, Erskine, 1870-1922.
Title:	The riddle of the sands : a record of secret service / Erskine Childers ; with a foreword by Geoffrey Household.
Publication info:	London, England : Penguin Bks, 1978.
Physical descrip:	326 p.
Corporate subject:	Great Britain. Foreign Office--Officials and employees--Fiction.
Subject term:	Sailing--North Sea--Fiction.
Subject term:	Spies--Great Britain--History--Fiction.
Geographic term:	Great Britain--History--1837-1901, Victoria--Fiction.
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