The Riddle of the Sands (Online Book)

[nies]

bob23, I HAVE ON MY MOTHERS SIDE SOME BRITS AND ITS NOT NECESSARILY A GOOD THING, LOL.....NIES

[Bob23]

Well, Nies, the fact that they drink warm beer should be our first clue,eh? Although C.S. Lewis who is my favorite author, was British. And they gave us the Aston Martin and who can forget Mrs. Peale from the old British cult spy TV series "The Avengers".  Man, I can just picture her in that tight black leather outift now. Oh...sorry, I forgot this was a family show.
Bob23

[nies]

BOB, I SHOULD CLARIFY THAT THE BRITS IN OUR FAMILY ARE INLAWS AND NOT BLOOD KIN FOLK. IF ANYONE HAS NOT SEEN THE 1981 FILM "DAS BOOT" , YOU HAVE MISSED ONE OF THE GREATEST SEA STORIES/FILM OF ALL TIME, IN MY HUMBLE OPINION.......NIES

[Craig Weis]

I loved DAS BOOT in German...with English sub titles. In fact I own the DVD. One of the few times I felt sorry for the Germans, but never the Nazis.

Saw that movie at the Biograph on Lincoln Ave in Chicago, the same theater where the 'Untouchables' gunned down John Dillinger in the alley, given up by the women in red.
My mom as a little girl was there for the movie show on that very night with her sister, my aunt.

I liked Mr. Martin Dibner's sea fairing books. Dibner was a British Naval Officer on a WWII Frigate in battle against the Germans. Good books. Best line..."Down the hatch and up the snatch".
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[Potcake boy]

Have no idea if any copies are still available, but the film I have is on VHS and was distributed by: VidAmerica 235 E. 55th St. N.Y., N.Y. 10022, it is their number 7018.

Another fun watch I viewed recently on NetFlix instant play was The Secret of Purple Reef with Peter Falk as a young man - some nice scenes of sailing in the Bahamas, and a different look for Falk.  Just love the awkward innocence of those old films.

For you Northerners that are squirrelling away your nautical nuts for the winter, a few years back Time Life published a series of 10 volumes titled "The Seafarers".  A really interesting read and historical maritime education. I had read a number of these books borrowed from a friend, and was delighted recently upon finding the complete collection in a local nautical consignment shop.

Ron

[Craig Weis]

Lets not forget Horatio Hornblower, as 'he' became a public TV series...it was good honest.
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[chas5131]

Got this on my Nook for $3.99 from Barnes and Noble

[Norm]

I have my second hard copy of Riddle of the Sands, an excellent read.  I read it every winter.  Also, The Magic of the Swatchways, by Maurice Griffiths, is an excellent compendium of Griffiths sailing adventures in the area where KTL Winters is now sailing.

Norm K

[HenryC]

A sequel to "The Riddle of the Sands" .

I posted this here before, but here it is again for the convenience of posters in this thread. 

The Shadow in the Sands
by Sam Llewellyn

I almost forgot! "The Riddle of the Sands" (Childers) has a modern sequel, "The Shadow in the Sands" by contemporary nautical writer Sam Llewellyn. I read it a few years ago (it was in the public library) and I found it quite entertaining. In my opinion, it is almost as good as "Riddle".  Lots of good sailing adventure, with a dose of espionage and intrigue. I love the way it builds up on Childer's work, and if you read one after the other, the two will seamlessly fit together.  But each book is independent of the other, and they can still  be read separately, or in any order.

The story picks up where "Riddle" leaves off, but continues with many of the same characters and story lines, set in the same coastline, the German North Sea Coast and the Frisian Islands. The link below will give you some reviews and a place to order. Here is one of them:

"Sam Llewellyn's latest sailing mystery novel is a departure from others he has written. Set in the early 1900 in England - and off the coast of Germany- it is written as the memiors of a young man who captains the racing yachts for "gentleman." Charlie Webb, orphaned before his teens, starts out fishing for a living and can not understand people who "sail for pleasure" but, for extra money, he agrees to captain a gentleman's yacht. His talent for winning earns him a share of the prize money, and a nautical encounter with the Kaiser. A few years later, that encounter sets up an unwanted assignment by a mysterious Duke, a man Charlie hasn't trusted for a day. This voyage is full of twists and turns, literally and figuratively, right to the last. Witten in the first person, using the speech and slang of the early 1900's, the story is still fast-paced and full of sailing detail, but at times, difficult to follow. English readers will have less objection to the prose, and Llewellyn fans will find it worth the effort. "


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