| The Riddle of the Sands Contributor(s): Childers, Erskine (Author) |
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ISBN: ISBN-13: 9798702589053 Publisher: Independently Published OUR PRICE: $11.69 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: February 2021 * Not available - Not in print at this time * |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Mystery & Detective - Historical - Fiction | Thrillers - Espionage - Fiction | Action & Adventure |
| Physical Information: 0.31" H x 7.01" W x 10" (0.58 lbs) 146 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: I have read of men who, when forced by their calling to live for long periods in utter solitude- save for a few black faces- have made it a rule to dress regularly for dinner in order to maintain their self-respect and prevent a relapse into barbarism. It was in some such spirit, with an added touch of self-consciousness, that, at seven o'clock in the evening of 23rd September in a recent year, I was making my evening toilet in my chambers in Pall Mall. I thought the date and the place justified the parallel; to my advantage even; for the obscure Burmese administrator might well be a man of blunted sensibilities and coarse fibre, and at least he is alone with nature, while I- well, a young man of condition and fashion, who knows the right people, belongs to the right clubs, has a safe, possibly a brilliant, future in the Foreign Office- may be excused for a sense of complacent martyrdom, when, with his keen appreciation of the social calendar, he is doomed to the outer solitude of London in September. |