The Cruise of the Alerte (1891) is a travel narrative by Edward Frederick Knight. In 1889, Knight sailed to Trindade in a 64-foot yawl named the Alerte.
At the time, it was the only detailed written account of the island.[1] The book was written as if the island was uninhabited, although the island was populated at the time and had been for at least five hundred years.[2]
Arthur Ransome used the descriptions from Knight's book as a basis for the geographical features of Crab Island in his book Peter Duck,[3] except that he set the island further north in the Caribbean Sea.
References edit
- ^ Murray, George (1902). "From Madeira to the Cape". The Geographical Journal. 19 (4): 426. Bibcode:1902GeogJ..19..423M. doi:10.2307/1775240. ISSN 0016-7398. JSTOR 1775240.
- ^ Sands-O'Connor, Karen (31 October 2013). Soon Come Home to This Island: West Indians in British Children's Literature. Routledge. p. 59. ISBN 978-1-135-92192-7.
- ^ "Swallows, Amazons and Adventure: Part 1". Exploring Arthur Ransome’s Lake District. 21 October 2020. Retrieved 7 February 2024.
External links edit
- Online version of The Cruise of the Alerte at the Wayback Machine (archived September 27, 2007)
The Cruise of the Alerte public domain audiobook at LibriVox- The Cruise of the 'Alerte' at Project Gutenberg
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