The Riddle of the Sands
Two friends take a small boat through the sandbanks off the German coast on what looks like a sailing holiday, and slowly work out what is being built there.
Things worth knowing
- The yacht Dulcibella is Childers's own boat Vixen, renamed after his sister, and long stretches of his 1897 Baltic logbook appear almost unedited in the book.
- In August 1910 two British officers, inspired by the novel, sailed the same Frisian coast collecting information on German naval installations, and were sentenced to four years by a military court in Leipzig.
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Every chapter has the recording and the same chapter as text. Open both if you like: the text is the words you are hearing.
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1 Preface 5 min
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2 Chapter One 17 min
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3 Chapter Two 30 min
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4 Chapter Three 24 min
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5 Chapter Four 18 min
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6 Chapter Five 19 min
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7 Chapter Six 16 min
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8 Chapter Seven 28 min
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9 Chapter Eight 27 min
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10 Chapter Nine 21 min
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11 Chapter Ten 19 min
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12 Chapter Eleven 20 min
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13 Chapter Twelve 24 min
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14 Chapter Thirteen 13 min
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15 Chapter Fourteen 19 min
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16 Chapter Fifteen 16 min
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17 Chapter Sixteen 32 min
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18 Chapter Seventeen 26 min
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19 Chapter Eighteen 13 min
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20 Chapter Nineteen 30 min
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21 Chapter Twenty 25 min
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22 Chapter Twenty-One 33 min
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23 Chapter Twenty-Two 27 min
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24 Chapter Twenty-Three 29 min
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25 Chapter Twenty-Four 34 min
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26 Chapter Twenty-Five 27 min
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27 Chapter Twenty-Six 29 min
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28 Chapter Twenty-Seven, Part One 17 min
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29 Chapter Twenty-Seven, Part Two 17 min
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30 Chapter Twenty-Eight 19 min
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31 Epilogue 23 min
Where this comes from
US public domain: first published 1903, before the 1930 cutoff. Author d.1922, so also clear in life+70 jurisdictions.
Cover image: generated for this edition.
Narration: text-to-speech.
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