年轻的阿瑟·戴维斯是个航海爱好者,他热情勇敢、技术娴熟,喜欢驾着他的“达尔茜贝拉”号游艇穿梭于这片复杂、危险的海域。戴维斯邀请他的朋友卡拉瑟斯从伦敦赶来,二人一起出海度假,可在船上待了几天之后,卡拉瑟斯才弄清此行的真正的目的。看来,他们是要去解开一个谜,还要解开一个名叫多尔曼的男人身上的疑团。两个好朋友开始了调查——与此同时,他们也引来了一位德国炮艇艇长的密切关注。
奇尔德斯的代表作《沙洲之谜》开启了军事间谍小说的先河。故事讲述了英国年轻人卡拉瑟斯期待着能与朋友戴维斯一起,在深秋的波罗的海上,体验一次轻松愉快的航行。然而,他发现,他们的真正目的地是德属北海弗里西亚群岛。群岛错综复杂的航道和沙洲间,隐藏着关乎英国国家安全的秘密……
The Riddle of the Sands is a 1903 novel by Erskine Childers. The book, which enjoyed immense popularity in the years before World War I, is an early example of the espionage novel and was extremely influential in the genre of spy fiction. Carruthers, a minor official in the Foreign Office, is contacted by an acquaintance, Davies, asking him to join in a yachting holiday in the Baltic Sea. Carruthers agrees and he arrives to find that Davies suspects that the Germans are undertaking something sinister in the German Frisian islands...
- 人物表
- The Coasts of the North Sea in 1902
- From the Baltic to the Frisian Islands
- Friesland and the Frisian Islands
- 缘起
- 1 波罗的海之约
- 2 不一样的航行
- 3 航海日志缺页之谜
- 4 探路者
- 5 会面与警告
- 6 少女和书
- 7 雾中一日
- 8 与敌人共进晚餐
- 9 谜底
- 10 最后一次航行
- 警钟长鸣
- ACTIVITIES Before Reading
- ACTIVITIES While Reading
- ACTIVITIES After Reading
- PEOPLE IN THIS STORY
- The Coasts of the North Sea in 1902
- From the Baltic to the Frisian Islands
- Friesland and the Frisian Islands
- 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
- ACTIVITIES Before Reading
- ACTIVITIES While Reading
- ACTIVITIES After Reading
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