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From the South Street Seaport Museum:

Step into a gripping narrative of maritime history with the Seaport Museum and best-selling author Eric Jay Dolin as he unveils a true story of resilience, treachery, and survival at the edge of the world. While sharing his latest book with us, Left for Dead: Shipwreck, Treachery, and Survival at the Edge of the World, Dolin will immerse us in a wild and fateful encounter that unfolds amidst the tumult of the American War of 1812.

Together we will learn how, fraught with misunderstandings and mistrust, the incident left three British sailors and two Americans, including the captain of the American sealing vessel, Charles H. Barnard, abandoned in the barren, windswept, and inhospitable Falklands for a year and a half. With deft narrative skill and vast knowledge of seafaring life, Dolin will describe 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.

Sign up today to enjoy this tale of intriguing complexity, with surprising twists and turns throughout, that offers a unique perspective on a pivotal era in American maritime history.

Advanced registration is suggested for this free event but walkups will be accommodated as possible. A Q&A and reception with complimentary beverages will follow. Left for Dead: Shipwreck, Treachery, and Survival at the Edge of the World, will be available for purchase and signing at the event.

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From the Noble Maritime Collection:

Join us on Saturday, May 18 at 2 PM for Left for Dead, a lecture by Eric Jay Dolin based on his book of the same name. 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.

Books will be for sale. CLICK HERE to let us know that you will attend this FREE event.