The Riddle of the Sands (Unabridged)
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3.0 • 4 Ratings
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- £7.99
Publisher Description
The Riddle of the Sands: A Record of Secret Service by Irish author Erskine Childers is often described as the first modern thirller and was one of the first popular spy novels.
Published in 1903 novel it spearheaded a genre and influenced the great espionage writers John Buchan, Ian Fleming, John le Carre and many others.
The plot involves the uncovering of secret German preparations for an invasion of the United Kingdom and is sited by Winston Churchill as one of the major reasons the Admiralty decided to establish naval bases at Invergordon, the Firth of Forth and Scapa Flow.
Robert Erskine Childers (1870 - 1922) was an Irish nationalist. Son of British Orientalist scholar Robert Caesar Childers; the cousin of Hugh Childers and Robert Barton; and the father of the fourth President of Ireland, Erskine Hamilton Childers.
Please note: This is a vintage recording. The audio quality may not be up to modern day standards.
Customer Reviews
Amateur hour
It's the cheapest of the Riddle of the Sands audiobooks currently on offer from iTunes - and for good reason. To say it's an amateur performance hardly hints at the problem. The numerous errors made by the reader (eg words read incorrectly are often just repeated) and the clear sound of pages being turned suggests no editorial control. I purchased this because the inadequate preview (barely 1 minute out of around 10 hours of talking) does not allow proper appraisal of the product.