Everything about Edward Frederick Knight totally explained
Edward Frederick (E.F.) Knight (
23 April 1852 -
3 July 1925) was an
English barrister and
writer about
sailing.
In 1889 Knight sailed to
the island of Trindade off the coast of Brazil in a 64 foot cutter named the
Alerte. He was in search of treasure. He wrote the book
The Cruise of the Alerte about his journey with detailed descriptions of Trindade.
His other books include
Where Three Empires Meet,
Sailing and
Falcon in the Baltic.
He was an influence on
Arthur Ransome who used his book
Sailing to teach himself how to sail and in the
Swallows and Amazons series as a resource for his fictional characters. Ransome also used the descriptions of Trinidade as a model for his fictional Crab Island in the book
Peter Duck.
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