cuxhaven – The Curiously Specific Book Club

‘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’”

‘Cuxhaven, which crouched so low behind its mighty dyke’

In December 1903 – the same year as the publication of Riddle of the Sands – Orville and Wilbur Wright were at their camp near the Kill Devil Hills in North Carolina. They had spent seven weeks fiddling with a miracle device – a powered biplane – alongside performing flight tests with a glider they hadContinue reading “‘Cuxhaven, which crouched so low behind its mighty dyke’”