1: 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 … Collection – Polar Exploration) (Volume 1)

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Following participation within the Arctic seek for Sir John Franklin, the mariner and creator 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 used to be to be resumed. Even if conceived as ‘merely a simple narrative of day-to-day life within the Southern Seas’, this illustrated two-volume work becomes concurrently a first-hand account of a sailor’s experiences and observations, and a self-justification against the ones 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 primary friendly meetings with ‘dreaded savages’. First published in 1857, the book met with some success. Snow, then again, wasted the proceeds on a fruitless action against his former employers.

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