Description
Product ID: | 9780194792318 |
Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
Country of Manufacture: | GB |
Series: | Oxford Bookworms Library |
Title: | Oxford Bookworms Library: Level 5:: The Riddle of the Sands |
Authors: | Author: Erskine Childers |
Page Count: | 112 |
Subjects: | Language readers, ELT graded readers, English |
Description: | Select Guide Rating Word count 22,885 Classics, modern fiction, non-fiction and more. Written for secondary and adult students the Oxford Bookworms Library has seven reading levels from A1-C1 of the CEFR.When Carruthers joins his friend Arthur Davies on his yacht Dulcibella, he is expecting a pleasant sailing holiday in the Baltic Sea. But the holiday turns into an adventure of a different kind. He and Davies soon find themselves sailing in the stormy waters of the North Sea, exploring the channels and sandbanks around the German Frisian Islands, and looking for a secret - a secret that could mean great danger for England. Erskine Childers'' novel, published in 1903, was the first great modern spy story, and is still as exciting to read today as it was a hundred years ago.CEFR B2Word count 22,885 |
Imprint Name: | Oxford University Press |
Publisher Name: | Oxford University Press |
Country of Publication: | GB |
Publishing Date: | 2008-01-24 |