Sabin 85559; Borba de Moraes p.817; Spence 1141. Snow (1817-1895) led an eventful life, during which among other things he "led a wild, if not criminal life" in Australia (ODNB), acted as amanuensis for Macaulay, and volunteered for a Franklin search expedition. In 1854, he commanded a South American Missionary Society ship transporting missionaries and supplies between Tierra del Fuego, the Falkland Islands and stations on the mainland. A disagreement with the Society's Falkland Islands agent resulted in Snow's dismissal from the command, and A Two Years' Cruise, written on his return to England, tells the story of this period. The work sheds much light on the natives, natural history and other aspects of the southernmost part of the continent, and contains occasional asides on Franklin's fate, which remained a central preoccupation with Snow. His book is an important work that has become scarce.