The Cruise of the Alerte (1891) is a travel narrative by Edward Frederick Knight. In 1889, Knight sailed to Trindade in a 64-foot yawl named the Alerte.
At the time, it was the only detailed written account of the island.[1] The book was written as if the island was uninhabited, although the island was populated at the time and had been for at least five hundred years.[2]
Arthur Ransome used the descriptions from Knight's book as a basis for the geographical features of Crab Island in his book Peter Duck,[3] except that he set the island further north in the Caribbean Sea.