Audiolibro Left for Dead

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.
The best-selling author of Black Flags, Blue Waters tells the story of a wild encounter between an American
sealing vessel, a shipwrecked British brig, and a British warship in the Falkland Islands during the War of 1812.
Fraught with misunderstandings and mistrust, the incident left three British sailors and two Americansincluding
the captain of the sealer, Charles H. Barnardabandoned in the Falklands for eighteen months. A tale of intriguing
complexity, with surprising twists and turns throughoutinvolving 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 an important moment in American
history.

Dettagli