Posted by John Wilson on February 10, 2012 at 14:20:03 user hugo.
In Reply to: Re: The sources for posted by Adam Quinan on February 10, 2012 at 02:31:45:
For Peter Duck AR used The Cruise of the Alerte as a source; by EF Knight one of his favorite authors, and about a cruise to the island of Trinidade off Brazil so it is not actually in the Caribbean. He wrote an introduction for the book when Rupert Hart-Davis reprinted the book in the Mariner’s Library (No 21) in 1952. I think that AR started PD after SA but finished SA instead, so that PD was the third book in the series by which time he was a recognised children’s (Christmas?) author, although it was after PD that he became confident of making a living by writing. PS: Lost or sunk gold is still being found; though by diving expeditions rather than by a party equipped with children’s beach spades!