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

William Parker Snow (1817-95), mariner and author, volunteered in 1854 to command the schooner Allen Gardiner on a Christian mission for the South American Missionary Society. Originally published in 1857, this two-volume work is a first-hand account of an eventful and wide-ranging service.