2: 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 2)

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Following participation within the Arctic seek for Sir John Franklin, the mariner and writer 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 supposing conceived as ‘merely a simple narrative of day by 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 2 includes an account of meeting ‘Jemmy Button’, the Fuegian who had been taken to Britain at the Beagle. It also charts the series of difficulties Snow faced as captain, which culminated in his dismissal and abandonment at the Falklands. First published in 1857, the narrative met with some success. Snow, alternatively, wasted the proceeds on a fruitless action against his former employers.

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