Dangerous Waters
The Life and Death of Erskine Childers
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2003
Hambledon Continuum (Verlag)
978-1-85285-392-1 (ISBN)
Hambledon Continuum (Verlag)
978-1-85285-392-1 (ISBN)
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In "The Riddle of the Sands", Erskine Childers fathered the modern genre of spy adventure. Childers himself led a life involving spying, gun-running and conspiracy, and a constant search for adventure and danger, which led in the end to his execution by firing squad in Ireland in 1923.
In The Riddle of the Sands, a gripping spy story set amongst the shoals and mists of the North Sea coast in the years before the First World War, Erskine Childers fathered the modern genre of spy adventures, as well as writing a great yachting classic. Unlike John Buchan or John Le Carre, however, Childers himself led a life involving spying, gun-running and conspiracy, and a constant search for adventure and danger, which led in the end to his execution by firing squad in Ireland in 1923. Dangerous Waters: The Life and Death of Erskine Childers tells the extraordinary story of a brilliant and highly talented eccentric. A pioneering yachtsman in the early days of small yacht sailing, Childers became such a fervent supporter of Irish nationalism that he ran guns to Ireland on his boat. In the Irish Civil War his extremism, and wish to take part in active service rather than writing propaganda, led to his betrayal, trial and execution.
In The Riddle of the Sands, a gripping spy story set amongst the shoals and mists of the North Sea coast in the years before the First World War, Erskine Childers fathered the modern genre of spy adventures, as well as writing a great yachting classic. Unlike John Buchan or John Le Carre, however, Childers himself led a life involving spying, gun-running and conspiracy, and a constant search for adventure and danger, which led in the end to his execution by firing squad in Ireland in 1923. Dangerous Waters: The Life and Death of Erskine Childers tells the extraordinary story of a brilliant and highly talented eccentric. A pioneering yachtsman in the early days of small yacht sailing, Childers became such a fervent supporter of Irish nationalism that he ran guns to Ireland on his boat. In the Irish Civil War his extremism, and wish to take part in active service rather than writing propaganda, led to his betrayal, trial and execution.
LEONARD PIPER is the author of Murder by Gaslight: A Study of Late Victorian Murder
Chapter 1:Young Erskine; Chapter 2:Sea Fever; Chapter 3:Soldier; Chapter 4:Author Chapter 5:Marriage; Chapter 6:New Interests; Chapter 7:Gun-Runner; Chapter 8:The Cuxhaven Raid; Chapter 9:The Dardanelles; Chapter 10:Sea and Sky; Chapter 11:Sinn Fein; Chapter 12:Civil War; Chapter 13:The Tragedy of Erskine Childers
Erscheint lt. Verlag | 1.2.2003 |
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Zusatzinfo | 22 illustrations |
Verlagsort | London |
Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 156 x 234 mm |
Gewicht | 336 g |
Themenwelt | Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte |
Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik | |
Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik | |
Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft | |
Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Systeme | |
Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Theorie | |
ISBN-10 | 1-85285-392-1 / 1852853921 |
ISBN-13 | 978-1-85285-392-1 / 9781852853921 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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