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, Volume 2

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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, Volume 2

Title remainder

A Narrative of Life in the Southern Seas

Title number

Volume 2

Statement of responsibility

William Parker Snow

Title variation

A Two Years' Cruise Off Tierra del Fuego, the Falkland Islands, Patagonia, & in the River Plate

Creator

• Snow, William Parker, 1817-1895

Subject

• Falkland Islands -- Description and travel
• Missions -- Falkland Islands
• Tierra del Fuego (Argentina and Chile) -- Description and travel

Language

eng

Summary

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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• Cambridge library collection, Polar exploration

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Provided by publisher

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UkCbUP

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index present

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Series statement

• Cambridge library collection. Polar exploration
• Cambridge Social Sciences eBooks