The Cruise of the 'Alerte': The Narrative of a Search for Treasure on the Desert Island of Trinidad

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379 pp. 6 x 4. "In 1889, Edward Frederick Knight sailed to Trindade in a 64 foot yawl named the Alerte. He wrote the book The Cruise of the Alerte about his journey with detailed d escriptions of Trindade. Arthur Ransome used the descriptions from Knight's book as a basis for Crab Island in his book Peter Duck, except that he set the island further north in the Caribbean Sea." Show more