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

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,...