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Erskine Childers (1870-1922) was an expert yachtsman whose sailing experiences were fictionalized in The Riddle of the Sands. An Irish nationalist, he was executed by the authorities of the nascent Irish Free State during the Irish Civil War.
Bernard Knox is director emeritus of Harvard's Center for Hellenic Studies in Washington, D.C.
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