{"product_id":"left-for-dead-shipwreck-treachery-and-survival-at-the-edge-of-the-world","title":"Left for Dead: Shipwreck, Treachery, and Survival at the Edge of the World","description":"\u003cdiv data-a-expander-name=\"book_description_expander\" data-a-expander-collapsed-height=\"280\" class=\"a-expander-collapsed-height a-row a-expander-container a-spacing-base a-expander-partial-collapse-container\" style=\"max-height: none; height: 280px;\"\u003e \u003cdiv data-expanded=\"false\" class=\"a-expander-content a-expander-partial-collapse-content\" style=\"padding-bottom: 20px;\"\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eThe 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.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eIn \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eLeft for Dead\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, Eric Jay Dolin―“one of today’s finest writers about ships and the sea” (\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eAmerican Heritage\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e)―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.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eFraught 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.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eA 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―\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eLeft for Dead\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e 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.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cspan\u003e 8 page full-color insert\u003c\/span\u003e  \u003c\/div\u003e div\u0026gt;\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Liveright Publishing Corporation","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50111174770973,"sku":"9781324096740","price":14.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0901\/5692\/5213\/files\/9781324096740.jpg?v=1751041223","url":"https:\/\/bookdelico.com\/products\/left-for-dead-shipwreck-treachery-and-survival-at-the-edge-of-the-world","provider":"Book Delico ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}