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Left for Dead

By Dolin, Eric Jay

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Left for Dead

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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 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 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.
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Edition:
1
Number of Pages:
320
Release Date:
2025-05-13
Publication Date:
2025-05-13
Publisher:
Liveright Publishing Corporation
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
1324096748
ISBN13:
9781324096740
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
[email protected]
Weight:
270 g
Height:
137 cm
Width:
208 cm
Thickness:
22 cm
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