Description: Left for Dead: Shipwreck, Treachery and Survival at the Edge of the World by Eric Jay Dolin (2024) Hardcover Edition The true story of five castaways abandoned on the Falkland Islands during the War of 1812―a tale of treachery, shipwreck, isolation, and the desperate struggle for survival.In Left for Dead, Eric Jay Dolin―“one of today’s finest writers about ships and the sea” (American Heritage)―tells the true story of a wild and fateful encounter between an American sealing vessel, a shipwrecked British brig, and a British warship in the Falkland archipelago during the War of 1812.Fraught with misunderstandings and mistrust, the incident left three British sailors and two Americans, including the captain of the sealer, Charles H. Barnard, abandoned in the barren, windswept, and inhospitable Falklands for a year and a half. With deft narrative skill and unequaled knowledge of the very pith of the seafaring life, Dolin describes in vivid and harrowing detail the increasingly desperate existence of the castaways during their eighteen-month ordeal―an all-too-common fate in the Great Age of Sail.A tale of intriguing complexity, with surprising twists and turns throughout―involving greed, lying, bullying, a hostile takeover, stellar leadership, ingenuity, severe privation, endurance, banishment, the great value of a dog, the birth of a baby, a perilous thousand-mile open-ocean journey in a seventeen-foot boat, an improbable rescue mission, and legal battles over a dubious and disgraceful wartime prize―Left for Dead shows individuals in wartime under great duress acting both nobly and atrociously, and offers a unique perspective on a pivotal era in American maritime history.8 pages of full-color illustrations Bought New and Lightly Read. Fascinating Read. Lists for $29.99 New. Great price and Fast Shipping. Could Pass as New. Combined Shipping Available.
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Narrative Type: Nonfiction
Original Language: English
Edition: First Edition
Book Title: Left for Dead : Shipwreck, Treachery, and Survival at the Edge of the World
Number of Pages: 320 Pages
Language: English
Publisher: Liveright Publishing Corporation
Topic: Military / War of 1812, Americas (North, Central, South, West Indies), Europe / Great Britain / Georgian Era (1714-1837)
Item Height: 1.1 in
Publication Year: 2024
Illustrator: Yes
Genre: History
Item Weight: 21.2 Oz
Author: Eric Jay Dolin
Item Length: 9.5 in
Item Width: 6.4 in
Format: Hardcover
