Left for Dead: Shipwreck, Treachery, and Survival at the Edge of the World

by Eric Jay Dolin

Book Overview

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,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1324093080
• ISBN13: 9781324093084
• Release Date: May 2024
• Publisher: Liveright Publishing Corporation
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 1.38 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.4" x 9.5"