Posted by Tim Johns on November 05, 2003 at 12:03:52 from 147.188.176.135 user Tim.
In Reply to: Re: Crab Island posted by Adam Quinan on October 31, 2003 at 01:01:42:
Thanks, Adam. There is no doubt that Ransome's (fictional) Crab
Island was based on E.F. Knight's (true) Trinidad Island. Since adding
the text of Knight's book to the Literary Pages, I've discovered that
Knight himself used Trinidad as part of the background to his one novel
"A Desperate Venture" (1896): his description of the island is very
similar to that in "The Cruise of the Alerte", and he finds a use for
the crabs far more macabre than anything in "Peter Duck"