The Cruise of the Alerte
Publisher: Grafton Books
Published: February 1985
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 205
ISBN-13: 9780246123121
Subjects: Travel writing; General; Reference; Literary Criticism; Nature; Literature: Classics
First sentence: IN the course of a long cruise in the South Atlantic and up the South American rivers, in the years 1880 and 1881, with my little yacht the Falcon, I found myself, more by accident than intention, in the neighbourhood of the small desert island of Trinidad.