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A two Years' Cruise off Tierra del Fuego, the Falkland Islands, Patagonia, and in the River Plate 2 Volume Set: A two Years' Cruise off Tierra del. Library Collection - Polar Exploration)
William Parker Snow
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Cambridge University Press
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A two Years' Cruise off Tierra del Fuego, the Falkland Islands, Patagonia, and in the River Plate 2 Volume Set: A two Years' Cruise off Tierra del. Library Collection - Polar Exploration) - Snow, William Parker
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Synopsis "A two Years' Cruise off Tierra del Fuego, the Falkland Islands, Patagonia, and in the River Plate 2 Volume Set: A two Years' Cruise off Tierra del. Library Collection - Polar Exploration)"
Following participation in the Arctic search for Sir John Franklin, the mariner and author William Parker Snow (1817-95) volunteered in 1854 to command the schooner Allen Gardiner, named after the man whose work for the South American Missionary Society was to be resumed. Although conceived as 'merely a simple narrative of daily life in the Southern Seas', this illustrated two-volume work becomes simultaneously a first-hand account of a sailor's experiences and observations, and a self-justification against those by whom he felt disappointed, frustrated and deceived. Volume 1 recounts the history of the Falkland Islands and the circumstances of this mission, covering the voyage to Patagonia, the establishment of a station on Keppel Island and the first friendly meetings with 'dreaded savages'. First published in 1857, the book met with some success. Snow, however, wasted the proceeds on a fruitless action against his former employers.
