| The Riddle of the Sands Contributor(s): Childers, Erskine (Author) |
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ISBN: 153523671X ISBN-13: 9781535236713 Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform OUR PRICE: $11.64 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: July 2016 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Collections |
| Lexile Measure: 1100 |
| Physical Information: 0.61" H x 6" W x 9" (0.87 lbs) 292 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Robert Erskine Childers was the author of the influential novel The Riddle of the Sands and an Irish nationalist who smuggled guns to Ireland in his sailing yacht Asgard. He was executed by the authorities of the nascent Irish Free State during the Irish Civil War. He was the 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. |