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241:. This is based on his belief that he was nearly wrecked by a German yacht luring him into a shoal in rough weather during a previous trip. The yacht was owned and captained by a mysterious German entrepreneur called Dollmann, whom Davies suspects of being in fact an expatriate Englishman posing as a German. The situation was further complicated by Davies having fallen deeply in love with Dollmann's daughter, Clara – who, Davies is sure, is not involved in whatever nefarious scheme her father is engaged upon. In any case, Davies is suspicious about what would motivate Dollmann to try to kill him, and believed that it is some scheme involving the German Imperial government. Having failed to interest anyone in the British government in the incident, Davies feels it is his patriotic duty to investigate further on his own – hence the invitation to Carruthers. 449:- in his book Childers was espousing the arguments made in favour of the Volunteer Reserve but the novel was by no means the source of the idea or the force behind its creation. However the impact of the book and its popularity has been credited with adding backing to the Naval Forces Bill and speeding its passage through parliament. Childers would in fact be commissioned into the RNVR on the outbreak of the First World War 1232: 290:
has changed sides again. They promise Dollman immunity from being charged for treason in Britain – which, acting on their own and not having any authorization from the British government, they were not truly in a position to promise. As they sail across the North Sea, Dollmann commits suicide by jumping overboard, presumably to avoid disgrace and probable arrest.
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Germany in time to be present at the conspirators' rendezvous (to which Dollmann, significantly, was not invited). He manages to follow von BrĂĽning and his men without being noticed, and trails them to a port where they board a tugboat towing a barge. Carruthers then sneaks aboard and hides, and the convoy heads to sea.
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Von BrĂĽning invites them to Dollmann's villa for a dinner, where he attempts to subtly cross-examine them to find out if they are British spies. Carruthers plays a dangerous game, admitting they are curious. But he convinces von BrĂĽning that he believes the cover story about treasure and merely wants
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Taking advantage of a thick fog, Davies navigates them covertly through the complicated sandbanks in a small boat to investigate the Memmert site. Carruthers investigates the island. He overhears von BrĂĽning and Dollmann discussing something more than treasure hunting, including cryptic references to
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and many others." All of the physical background is completely authentic – the various Frisian islands and towns named in the book actually exist and the descriptions of them accurate (often, from the author's own experience). The same is true for the various "sands" of the title – vast areas which
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to invade Britain's east coast. He escapes after grounding the tugboat and rushes back to Davies. He finds him and explains how they must flee before the Germans come after them. They convince Dollmann and Clara to come with them to avoid Dollmann's being arrested by the Germans, who will think he
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In fact the influence the book had on the formation of the Volunteer Reserve has been overstated. The 1903 Naval Forces Bill authorising the formation of the RNVR was introduced to Parliament in March 1903 (the novel would debut in May) and was passed in June. The formation of a naval reserve for
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Carruthers announces that the Foreign Office has recalled him to England. He heads off, being accompanied part of the way to the Dutch border by one of the German conspirators – outwardly an affable fellow-traveller. But instead of embarking from Amsterdam to England, he doubles back, returns to
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Lower in the hierarchy, Carruthers several times states that he likes Commander von Brüning as a person – and this liking is not diminished by the discovery that von Brüning is deeply involved in the plan to invade England. In general, the book's protagonists feel no malice towards the Germans.
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Carruthers finally puts the riddle together. The Germans are linking the canals and the railways, dredging passages through the shifting sands and hiding a fleet of tugs and barges. The only explanation is that they are preparing to secretly transport a powerful German army across the
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was written as "... a story with a purpose", written from "a patriot's natural sense of duty", which predicted war with Germany and called for British preparedness. The whole genre of "invasion novels" raised the public's awareness of the "potential threat" of Imperial Germany.
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An epilogue by the "editor" examines the details of a report prepared by Dollmann, outlining his plan for the invasion force. A postscript notes that the Royal Navy is finally taking countermeasures to intercept any German invasion fleet and urges haste.
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Though wars with Germany would become a central issue for Britain for much of the first half of the 20th century, few Britons anticipated that before 1900. Historically, it was France which was the traditional enemy of England and Britain, from the
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There must be hundreds of chaps like me—I know a good many myself—who know our coasts like a book—shoals, creeks, tides, rocks; there’s nothing in it, it’s only practice. They ought to make some use of us as a naval reserve.
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at ebb. Navigating a small boat under these conditions requires a specialized kind of skilled seamanship, of which the character Davies is an unsurpassed master, and the descriptions of his feats are of abiding interest to
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Carruthers and Davies spend some time exploring the shallow tidal waters of the Frisian Islands, moving closer to the mysterious site where there is a rumoured secret treasure recovery project in progress on the island of
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noted: "For the next ten years Childers's book remained the most powerful contribution of any English writer to the debate on Britain's alleged military unpreparedness." It was a notable influence on
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to see the imaginary "wreck". The party also serves to show that the Germans do not fully trust the renegade Englishman Dollmann and that there is some rift between them which might be widened.
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A 90-minute BBC Radio 4 adaptation was broadcast in January 1994, as part of the Saturday Night Theatre strand, starring Laurence Kennedy as Carruthers and Charles Simpson as Davies.
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It is noteworthy that the demonization and vilification of Kaiser Wilhelm, which would become a staple of British propaganda in later years, are conspicuously absent from
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in which he warned of outdated British army tactics in the event of "conflicts of the future". He developed this theme in two further works he published in 1911:
219:. Carruthers agrees, as his other plans for a holiday have fallen through, and because of a heartbreak due to a woman he courted becoming engaged to another man. 543:
Rather, they take a "sporting" attitude, frankly admiring the Germans' audacity and resourcefulness while being determined to outwit them and foil their plans.
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to find Childers, whom he had met when the author was campaigning to represent a naval seat in Parliament, and employ him. At the time Childers was writing
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that "established a formula that included a mass of verifiable detail, which gave authenticity to the story – the same ploy that would be used so well by
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on 5 March 1903, two months before the novel's publication, and some time after secret negotiations for the purchase had begun. Although
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had decided to establish the new naval bases, this seems unlikely. When war was declared he ordered the
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Similarly, the belief has grown that the book was responsible for the development of the naval base at
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in the Frisian Islands in April 1903 and the Conclusion of the Events described by Erskine Childers."
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Davies gradually reveals that he suspects that the Germans are undertaking something sinister in the
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effected a change in the actual power relations – reflected in the specific literary genre of
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This article is about the 1903 adventure novel. For the 1979 film based on the novel, see
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The novel contains many realistic details based on Childers' own sailing trips along the
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starting in December 1949, with Dyall himself taking the role of Carruthers.
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and its formation came after a concerted political and press campaign led by
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He arrives to find that Davies has a small sailing boat (the vessel is named
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Buchan, Alastair; McGreary, Jeremy (January 2006). "The Book and the Boat".
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The Second Oldest Profession: Spies and Spying in the Twentieth Century
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enthusiasts, quite apart from their role in the book's espionage plot.
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The Riddle of the Sands has been credited with the creation of the
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and the identity assigned to the possible invader of British soil.
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has cited the book as the second best spy novel of all time, after
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included it in his list of the 100 greatest novels of all time.
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building up the German Navy and challenging British sea power
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Imperial German plans for the invasion of the United Kingdom
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cruise "appear almost unedited in the book". The yacht
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In Germany, the novel was popularised by the TV movie
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The Riddle of the Sands: A Record of Secret Service
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Index

The Riddle of the Sands (film)
Riddles in the Sand
Secret of the Sands

Erskine Childers
Invasion novel
Adventure novel
Spy novel
Smith, Elder & Co
OCLC
3569143
1903 novel
Erskine Childers
World War I
genre of spy fiction
adventure novels
Rider Haggard
Victorian Britain
spy novel
John Buchan
Ian Fleming
John le Carré
mudflats
yachting
Foreign Office
Baltic Sea
Frisian Islands
Germany
German Frisian islands
Memmert

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