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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 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 first friendly meetings with 'dreaded savages'. First published in 1857, the book met with some success. Snow, however, wasted the proceeds on a fruitless action against his former employers.

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• Plný název: Two Years' Cruise Off Tierra del Fuego, the Falkland Islands, Patagonia, and in the River Plate
• Podnázev: A Narrative of Life in the Southern Seas
• Autor: William Parker Snow
• Jazyk: Angličtina
• Vazba: Brožovaná
• Počet stran: 404
• EAN: 9781108062046
• ISBN: 1108062040
• ID: 02059398
• Nakladatelství: Cambridge University Press
• Hmotnost: 51 g
• Rozměry: 217 × 142 × 25 mm
• Datum vydání: 31. October 2013

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