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Left for Dead: Shipwreck, Treachery, and Survival at the Edge of the World

By (author) Eric Jay Dolin

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In Left for Dead, Eric Jay Dolinâ€”â€œone of todayâ€™s finest writers about ships and the seaâ€ (American Heritage)â€”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 unequalled 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 ordealâ€”an all-too-common fate in the Great Age of Sail. A tale of intriguing complexity, with surprising twists and turns throughoutâ€”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 prizeâ€”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.