Left for Dead
2024·320 pages
True account of castaways abandoned in the Falklands during the War of 1812, facing treachery, isolation, and a desperate fight to survive.
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True account of castaways abandoned in the Falklands during the War of 1812, facing treachery, isolation, and a desperate fight to survive.
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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, a...
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Sexual content
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Birth of a baby is noted; no explicit romantic or sexual scenes
Violence & gore
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Shipwreck peril, wartime conflict, and harsh survival without graphic gore
Profanity
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Substance use
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LGBTQ+ Rep.
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Religious content
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Magic & witchcraft
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Occult / demonology
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Political content
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War of 1812 setting; wartime prize law and national loyalties recur
Self-harm / suicide
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Abuse & suffering
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Abandonment, bullying, betrayal, and extreme privation; seal hunting
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