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SNOW, W. Parker.
A Two Year's Cruise off Tierra del Fuego, The Falkland Islands, Patagonia, and in The River Plate.
William Parker Snow (1817–1895) led an extraordinary life, living wild in the Australian bush, saving a man from a shark attack off the coast of Africa, serving as an amanuensis to Thomas Babington Macaulay, and searching for Sir John Franklin aboard the Prince Albert. ‘In 1854 Snow went to Patagonia in command of the South American Missionary Society’s vessel Allen Gardiner, and for two years carried missionaries and their stores between Tierra del Fuego, the Falkland Islands, and stations on the mainland. This service ended in a disagreement between him and the superintending missionary at the Falkland Islands, who deposed Snow from his command for disobedience and left him and his wife to find their own way to England. On his arrival, Snow published A Two Years’ Cruise ... which had some success, but he spent the proceeds on an unsuccessful action against the missionary society’ (ODNB).
- Published
- London: Longman, Brown, 1857.
- References
- Sabin 85559; Bobins 26.
- Plates
- 6 + 3
- Binding/Size
- S=8vo
- Value
- 0-5000
- Published
- London: Longman, Brown, 1857.
- Ref
- 5193
FIRST EDITION. 2 volumes, octavo, contemporary navy blind-stamped navy blue cloth. Lettered gilt to spine. Publishers advertisements, bookplates of 'William Hawker' & 'Samuel Weare Gardiner Esq' to front pastedown. Coloured endpapers. Six chromolithographed plates together with three hand-tinted folding maps. Vol 1 was professionally repaired with fresh cloth hinges and a newly relaid spine. Snow commanded the Mission Yacht 'Allen Gardiner', named after the naval commander who founded the Patagonian Missionary Society in 1844. Gardiner and his crew landed in Tierra del Fuego to found their mission but took ill and died before help could reach them. Snow then established the mission headquarters on Keppel Island, South Falklands, in 1855, at a period when the mission was battling against sealers and whalers for reducing and mistreating the local wildlife. Governor Moore proposed his remarks on the Falklands as a penal settlement and was supported by Snow. Rebinding and restoration work on this book was carried out by Ron Norman of Hartlepool (Ronnorn@aol.com) Coloured plates in order: Volume 1. 1. Frontispiece. Woman of Fuegia and Child. 2. Starvation Beach, Spaniard's Harbour. 3. Banner Cove, Picton Island. 4. [Map] North part of West Falkland (with inset.) 5. [Inset map] North part of East Falklands. 6. [Map] Plan of Banner Cove, Picton Island, Tierra del Fuego. Volume 2. 7. Frontispiece. The Fuegian and his food. 8. Button Sound, Tierra del Fuego. 9. A heavy Gale off Cape Horn.
