Posted by Adam Quinan on February 03, 2012 at 12:20:30 user Adam.
In Reply to: Re: Down Channel in Peter Duck - a question Re: Conspiracy explanation (Re: problem with dates) posted by Jock on February 03, 2012 at 11:58:53:
He sailed Nancy Blacket up Channel after he bouight her, but that was in 1934, well after Peter Duck was published (1932). I can't recall any earlier sailing Channel voyages, in either direction.
He and Evgenia did go by sea to Syria and back to visit the Altounyans (and write Peter Duck) but I don't know which port he left from. He had also been across the Channel to France, presumably by steam ferry boat.