by E.F. Knight
Knight wrote three accounts of cruises he had made in three different boats. The first was the famous Cruise of the Falcon to South America and the West Indies; the third was an account of a treasure-hunting expedition in the Alerte to the island of Trinidad. The second, The Falcon on the Baltic, was the story of a much more modest adventure, a leisurely cruise from Hammersmith to Copenhagen in an old ship's lifeboat picked up for twenty pounds. This is one of the reasons why so many of its readers prefer it to Knight's other books. Knight's book is full of the pleasure of getting about in a small boat, the smaller the better. The Falcon was small, but she was accompanied throughout by another boat, even smaller, an eleven-foot sailing dinghy, and the Falcon's anchor was seldom down long before her owner was in the dinghy, hoisting sail or rowing off on a voyage of more intimate exploration. First published in 1888.
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