The Riddle of the Sands
?This is a book of great renown. . . . Its beautifully sustained atmosphere . . . adds poetry, and . . . real mystery.? ?Ian Fleming--ReviewFirst published in 1903, this classic relates the intrigue the unfolds when cruiser Arthur Davies asks his former Oxford classmate, an aristocrat known only as Carruthers to join him for duck shooting and yachting in the Baltic aboard the no-frills centerboard yawl DULCIBELLA. This odd couple mariner and sophisticate team to unravel a pre-World War I German plot from clues found in the shifting sands off Germany's coast. --Cruising World, February 2002