Left for dead : shipwreck, treachery, and survival at the edge of the world /
The 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. Fraught with misunderstandings and mistrust, the incident left three British sailors and two Americans, including the captain...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W.W. Norton & Company,
[2024].
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| Edition: | First edition. |
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| Summary: | The 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. 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 best-selling and award-winning maritime historian presents this true story of five castaways, three British sailors and two Americans, abandoned on the Falkland Islands for a year during the War of 1812, showing individuals in wartime under great duress acting both nobly and atrociously as they struggle to survive. |
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| Item Description: | Maps on endpapers. |
| Physical Description: | xii, 296 pages, [8] pages of color plates : illustrations, maps : 25 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781324093084 1324093080 |