02900cam a2200277 4500 1268848998 TxAuBib 20240509120000.0 ||||||s2024||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 9798892733168 90e1b2a0-f914-46ac-a815-c1cd0dab4e9d OverDrive (Reserve ID) 10403615 OverDrive (Product ID) TxAuBib Dolin, Eric Jay. Left for Dead [Libby Audiobook] : Shipwreck, Treachery, and Survival at the Edge of the World. Recorded Books, Inc., 2024. Format: OverDrive OverDrive MP3 Audiobook, Filesize: 219MB. Format: OverDrive OverDrive Listen, Filesize: 219MB. 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 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 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. Nonfiction. History. Media Type: Audiobook. Importer Version: 2014-01-08.01 Import Date: 2024-05-08 20:00:02. Ganser, L.J. https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=90e1b2a0-f914-46ac-a815-c1cd0dab4e9d&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive MP3 Audiobook) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=90e1b2a0-f914-46ac-a815-c1cd0dab4e9d&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive Listen)