Posted by Adam Quinan on October 27, 2012 at 02:43:31 user Adam.
In Reply to: Crab Island's and Gibber's real-life prototypes posted by Mike Field on October 26, 2012 at 17:46:32:
Christina Hardyment in her book "Arthur Ransome and Captain Flint's Trunk" points out that the monkey in Peter Duck was originally named Jacko in the early manuscript "Their Own Story" and then changed to Gibber as he wrote the full story.