AR & 'The Riddle of the Sands'


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Posted by Beck on February 04, 1999 at 00:05:33:

I haven't come across any reference to AR's having read/been influenced by 'The Riddle of the Sands' by Erskine Childers. Having just read it I feel sure there must be a reference to it on this website that I've missed. The navigation aspect is so like SW - all that filling in blanks on the map and prodding around and running aground at low water. Also the dissolute Carruthers throwing off his mantle of bored decadence and turning into a proper sailor parallels (in a far more adult way of course) the Ds learning to be sailors despite the ghastly handicap of growing up in the city. Can someone please enlighten me?


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