Curtis Edmonds News Today : Breaking News, Live Updates & Top Stories | Vimarsana

In LEFT FOR DEAD, Eric Jay Dolin 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 18-month ordeal - an all-too-common fate in the Great Age of Sail.

United kingdomUnited statesNew yorkCharlesh barnardEric jay dolinRoyal navyDavid grannCurtis edmonds