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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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The best-selling author of Black Flags, Blue Waters tells the story of a wild encounter between an American sealing vessel, a shipwrecked British brig and a British warship in the Falkland Islands 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 Falklands for eighteen months. 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 an important moment in American history.
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Publisher | W W Norton & Co Ltd
Published date | 7 May 2024
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Format | Hardback
Pages | 320
Dimensions | 244 x 163 x 28mm (L x W x H)
Weight | 543g
ISBN | 978-1-3240-9308-4
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