The Riddle of the Sands (1000 Books to Read)

This had everything that I love: adventure, mystery, even romance! I loved this quick read. I am going to watch the movie that is on Amazon Prime. It has Jenny Agutter who is on Call the Midwife. 

The only disadvantage is that I did not have the maps with me while I was listening to the audiobook on a walk. I came home and followed it on Google Maps for the last half of the book. I wish I had the illustrated version of this book!

While it did not initiate naval preparedness for Great Britain, it did help propel it. Germany did end up being a problem a few years later in World War I!

Here is why James Mustich thinks it should be one of the 1000 Books You Read Before You Die:

“A yachting story, with a purpose,” Erskine Childers wrote to a correspondent while he was composing The Riddle of the Sands at the beginning of the twentieth century. The purpose was political: to alert an unprepared England to the threat posed by German ambitions. It was by no means the only example of “invasion fiction” created by British writers at the time to stir their sleepy country to naval investment, but it was the most influential in promoting the cause of military readiness, and—more important for later generations of readers—it has proven the most enduring, for the simple reason that it is a rip-roaring good yarn.