The Cruise of the Alerte
The Cruise of the Alerte (1891) is a
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
- JSTOR 1775240.
- 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
- 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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