The Riddle of the Sands
A bored Foreign Office clerk accepts an invitation to shoot duck in the Baltic and finds his host sailing a small yacht through the sandbanks off the German coast. The two of them chart channels, avoid a suspicious Anglo-German neighbor, and work out what the shoals are being surveyed for. The first modern spy novel, and an argument about North Sea defense disguised as a cruising log.
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