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

• Main Author: Snow, William Parker
• Format: Book
• Language: unknown
• Published: Cambridge University Press 2013
• Subjects: Arctic; Patagonia; The Schooner; Gardiner; Tierra del Fuego
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/cbo9781139839310

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 '...