We’ve made it to the last day in the book – October 26. Our heroes, Carruthers and Davies, sail off into the sunset with the delightful Clara on board, and her dastardly dad Dollman overboard. In this podcast Lloyd notDavies plots out how to get back to Blighty via Ostmahorn, Holland. Tim notCarruthers, meanwhile, considersContinue reading “The 26th Adventure Podcast: Going Overboard in Ostmahorn”
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‘I don’t think “spy” is the right word; but I mean something pretty bad’
Davies hesitates to call Dollman a ‘spy’, for good reason. There was little understanding as to what this word meant in 1898 – it certainly didn’t carry the associations it does for us. But this period is pungent with the smell of undercover agents, of men who are not quite what they seem, of boys-own adventureContinue reading “‘I don’t think “spy” is the right word; but I mean something pretty bad’”
The 9th Adventure Club Podcast: Double Agents, Naval Officers & Apples
In which we discuss our plans to re-enact the classic spy novel ‘The Riddle of the Sands’, following the route of Carruthers & Davies day by day through Germany. This week we’re concentrating on October 1, the day that Davies reveals what this duck shooting holiday is all about. He recounts his first encounters withContinue reading “The 9th Adventure Club Podcast: Double Agents, Naval Officers & Apples”
The Curiously Specific Book Club 