02525cam a2200265 4500 1671401846 TxAuBib 20241023120000.0 ||||||s2024||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 9798892733168 0031497550 Axis360 TxAuBib Dolin, Eric Jay. Left for Dead [Boundless]. Unabridged. Recorded Books, 2024. In Left for Dead, Eric Jay Dolin—“one of today’s finest writers about ships and thesea” (American Heritage)—tells the true story of a wild and fateful encounterbetween an American sealing vessel, a shipwrecked British brig, and a Britishwarship in the Falkland archipelago during the War of 1812.Fraught with misunderstandings and mistrust, the incident left three British sailorsand two Americans, including the captain of the sealer, Charles H. Barnard,abandoned in the barren, windswept, and inhospitable Falklands for a year and ahalf. With deft narrative skill and unequaled knowledge of the very pith of theseafaring life, Dolin describes in vivid and harrowing detail the increasinglydesperate existence of the castaways during their eighteen-month ordeal—an alltoo-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 ababy, a perilous thousand-mile open-ocean journey in a seventeen-foot boat, animprobable rescue mission, and legal battles over a dubious and disgracefulwartime prize—Left for Dead shows individuals in wartime under great duressacting both nobly and atrociously, and offers a unique perspective on a pivotal erain 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. Format: Acoustik. HISTORY / Wars & Conflicts / War of 1812. General Adult. Importer Version: 2016-03-11.01 Import Date: 2024-10-23 20:00:03. History fast Wars & Conflicts War of 1812. Ganser, L. J, narrator. https://fpltx.boundless.baker-taylor.com/Title?itemId=0031497550 TXFLO