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A Two Years' Cruise Off Tierra del Fuego, the Falkland Islands, Patagonia, and in the River Plate - A Narrative of Life in the Southern Seas (Paperback)
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A Two Years' Cruise Off Tierra del Fuego, the Falkland Islands, Patagonia, and in the River Plate - A Narrative of Life in the Southern Seas (Paperback)
Series: Cambridge Library Collection - Polar Exploration, Volume 2
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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
2 includes an account of meeting 'Jemmy Button', the Fuegian who
had been taken to Britain on the Beagle. It also charts the series
of difficulties Snow faced as captain, which culminated in his
dismissal and abandonment on the Falklands. First published in
1857, the narrative met with some success. Snow, however, wasted
the proceeds on a fruitless action against his former employers.
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