Left for Dead by Eric Jay Dolin

Left for Dead by Eric Jay Dolin

The true story of five castaways abandoned on the Falkland Islands during the War of 1812a tale of treachery, shipwreck, isolation and the desperate struggle for survival

"It would hardly be an exaggeration to say that Dolin’s saga has as many twists and turns as a route through the mazy South Atlantic archipelago...Dolin does justice to the drama of it all... without stinting on one of pleasures of reading 19th-century history: the wordsmithery of people high and low…The author of several previous books on such maritime topics as piracy and whaling, Dolin is an expert literary steersman." -- Dennis Drabelle - The Washington Post
"It’s a tale with all the elements of a movie blockbuster: shipwreck, mutiny, greed and a desperate struggle for survival in a hostile environment. There is also high-minded altruism, persistent backstabbing, drunkenness and—as if a movie executive had insisted it could only help the box office—a noble dog....Dolin’s firm grasp of the 19th-century maritime world is undeniable....This is a masterly account of a historical event." -- Bill Heavey - The Wall Street Journal
"Eric Jay Dolin’s depiction of early 1800s seafaring is filled with as much adventure, intrigue, action, and colorful characters as any classic Hollywood movie. Surviving a thousand-mile ocean journey in a small boat is just one of several scintillating ingredients. Left for Dead is a true account that reads like a grizzled sailor’s tall tale." -- Tom Clavin, author of Lightning Down: A World War II Story of Survival
"In Left for Dead, a handful of sailors abandoned on a remote island by their mates more than two centuries ago is only the beginning. Eric Jay Dolin delivers surprise after surprise. With a plot worthy of the best seafaring fiction, Dolin’s gripping narrative has the added fascination of being entirely true." -- Andrea Pitzer, author of Icebound: Shipwrecked at the Edge of the World
"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

Eric Jay Dolin is the best-selling author of numerous works in maritime history, including Left for Dead; Black Flags, Blue Waters; and Leviathan. His books have won many awards including the John Lyman Award for U.S. Maritime History; Fraunces Tavern Museum Book Award; National Society Daughters of the American Revolution Excellence in American History Book Award; and the Samuel Eliot Morison Book Award for Naval Literature; and he was a finalist for the Kirkus Prize. He now lives in Marblehead, Massachusetts, with his family.

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ISBN 13	9781324096740
ISBN 10	1324096748
Title	Left for Dead
Author	Eric Jay Dolin
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	WW Norton & Co
Year published	2025-06-27
Number of pages	320
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