Category Archives: Sands

“Isn’t there the wreck of a treasure-ship somewhere farther west?”

The cover story for all the activity around the strange island of Memmert is readily given by Von Brüning: they’re after a wreck. ‘I don’t wonder you heard of it. It’s one of the few things folk have to talk about in these parts. It lies on Juister Riff, a shoal off Juist. She wasContinue reading ““Isn’t there the wreck of a treasure-ship somewhere farther west?””

‘For miles in every direction lay a desert of sand’

I’ve been fretting about how we get from Brünsbuttel on October 5 to Wangerooge on October 15. Carruthers and Davies have their little boat ‘Dulcibella’. We do not. We’re planning to turn up on the banks of the Elbe on bicycles. Even if we did get hold of a Dulcibella-like boat (skippered by someone whoContinue reading “‘For miles in every direction lay a desert of sand’”