The Riddle of the Sands (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781535236713)

Robert Erskine Childers was the author of the influential novel The Riddle of the Sands and an Irish nationalist who smuggled guns to Ireland in his sailing yacht Asgard. He was executed by the authorities of the nascent Irish Free State during the Irish Civil War. He was the son of British Orientalist scholar Robert Caesar Childers; the cousin of Hugh Childers and Robert Barton; and the father of the fourth President of Ireland, Erskine Hamilton Childers.

Author: Erskine Childers
ISBN-10: 153523671X
ISBN-13: 9781535236713
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Language: English
Published: 07/12/2016
Pages: 292
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.87lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.61d