
Left for Dead
Shipwreck, Treachery, and Survival at the Edge of the World
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Narrated by:
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L.J. Ganser
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By:
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Eric Jay Dolin
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.
“An absorbing adventure that explores the dark shadows of instinct and self-preservation, and the hardships and stress that stretch the bonds of humanity.
Fascinating reading.”—Stephen R. Bown, author of Island of the Blue Foxes:
Disaster and Triumph on the World’s Greatest Scientific Expedition
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How the author developed the characters
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Disjointed
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never a dull moment
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Those humans were something else.
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I know they had probability on their side being in a relatively well traveled lane with common stopping points for fresh food and water. But still, this is regular people doing really hard things and making it work.
Also, a great look into the life of the times and in the age of sail. Seeing who helps who and how group dynamics work for survival or don't for those that didn't make it. So many close calls and hardships that are survived. In this time of instant gratification, just thinking back to a time when you could wait a year for your delivery and it could be late 6 months or more. Helps to realize how times have changed and gratitude for the conveniences of modern life. And how few people could survive in a situation like that now.
Fascinating times; regular people, hard things
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Okay shipwreck tale, but questionable sources
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Great history
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An interesting read
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Amazing story and narrator
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Riveting and Nail-Biting!
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