Posted by Adam Quinan on October 06, 2008 at 10:41:19 user Adam.
In Reply to: Re: Crab Island (Jamaica) posted by Andy on October 06, 2008 at 08:17:37:
Most people suggest that Ransome based a lot of Crab Island on his favourite sailing author's descriptions of Trinidade, an island off the Brazilian coast, in The Cruise of the Alerte where E.F. Knight went treasure hunting.
There is an on-line version of the book on the "All Things Ransome" Literary Pages, see link below.