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  • Left for Dead: Shipwreck, Treachery, and Survival at the Edge of the World
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Left for Dead: Shipwreck, Treachery, and Survival at the Edge of the World Audible Audiobook – Unabridged

Eric Jay Dolin (Author), L.J. Ganser (Narrator), Recorded Books (Publisher)
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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 all-too-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

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  1. Listening Length
    7 hours and 59 minutes
  2. Author
    Eric Jay Dolin
  3. Narrator
    L.J. Ganser
  4. Audible release date
    May 7 2024
  5. Language
    English
  6. Publisher
    Recorded Books
  7. ASIN
    B0CSGDCN32
  8. Version
    Unabridged
  9. Program Type
    Audiobook
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Product details

Listening Length 7 hours and 59 minutes
Author Eric Jay Dolin
Narrator L.J. Ganser
Audible.ca Release Date May 07 2024
Publisher Recorded Books
Program Type Audiobook
Version Unabridged
Language English
ASIN B0CSGDCN32
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    5.0 out of 5 stars Humans at their worse and best.
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  • Robert Beger
    5.0 out of 5 stars Good tale
    Reviewed in the United States on May 27, 2025
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    It's a good sailing adventure.
    Some ought to be jailed.
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    4.0 out of 5 stars It's a story of human nature
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    I enjoyed the book but I trouble keeping track who was where and what ship did what. I do understand because it's such a big story for one book.
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    Illustrates the courage, ingenuity, and plain toughness of men in the age of sail. Narrates the survival story of a small party marooned through treachery of a British naval officer and passengers who they had themselves rescued. The ordeals that they endured just to avoid starvation are hardly believable.
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