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(0)Erskine Childers
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Carruthers, un jeune dandy qui s'ennuie à Londres, a été invité par son vieil ami, Davies, à le rejoindre en croisière sur son yacht. Mais alors que tous deux profitent de la mer et de vacances bien méritées, Davies se met à agir étrangement. Il prend tous les risques, emprunte les routes les plus difficiles, et les transporte de la mer Baltique jusqu'à la mer du Nord, dans les îles de la Frise. Davies lui expose alors une théorie des...
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Do you like Stieg Larsson's 'Millennium', James Bond and dystopian dramas like 'The Man in the High Castle'? The 1903 spy thriller 'The Riddle of the Sands' has elements of all three - and then some. Ken Follett, author of 'The Pillars of the Earth', called 'The Riddle of the Sands' the "first modern thriller".
It centres on a suspected plot by the German Empire to invade Britain. The plot proved to be almost prophetic, bearing in mind what was to...
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Few people would want to test their mettle in an ice-encrusted boat with Ernest Shackleton, sail the Straits of Magellan with Joshua Slocum, or watch with Owen Chase as an angry whale sends his ship to the bottom, thousands of miles from the nearest land. But it's quite another thing to read these true accounts while settled into a favorite chair. Shackleton and Chase persevered in the face of travails that would have given even Job pause. Their stoic...
