A level 5 Oxford Bookworms Library graded reader. Retold for Learners of English by Peter Hawkins.
When Carruthers joins his friend Arthur Davies on his yacht Dulcibella, he is expecting a pleasant sailing holiday in the Baltic Sea. But the holiday turns into an adventure of a different kind. He and Davies soon find themselves sailing in the stormy waters of the North Sea, exploring the channels and sandbanks around the German Frisian Islands, and looking for a secret – a secret that could mean great danger for England.
Erskine Childers’ novel, published in 1903, was the first great modern spy story, and is still as exciting to read today as it was a hundred years ago.
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Erskine Childers. The Riddle of the Sands
THE RIDDLE OF THE SANDS
PEOPLE IN THIS STORY
THE REASON WHY
1. An invitation to the Baltic Sea
2. A different kind of sailing
3. The missing page in the log-book
4. The pathfinders
5. A meeting and a warning
6. A young lady and a book
7. A day out in the fog
8. An evening with the enemy
9. The answer to the riddle
10. The last voyage
A WARNING FOR THE FUTURE
GLOSSARY
ACTIVITIES
ACTIVITIES
ACTIVITIES
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
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Carruthers, who tells the story
Davies, his friend, and owner of the yacht Dulcibella
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Frau (Mrs) Dollmann, Dollmann’s wife and Clara’s stepmother
Commander von Brüning, a German naval officer, and captain of the gunboat Blitz
