FRST TIME THE FALKLANDS ENTERED AMERICAN HISTORY: 3/4: Left for Dead: Shipwreck, Treachery, and Survival at the Edge of the World by Eric Jay Dolin (Author) https://www.amazon.com/Left-Dead-Shipwreck-Treachery-Survival/dp/1324093080 In Left for Dead,

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FRST TIME THE FALKLANDS ENTERED AMERICAN HISTORY: 3/4: Left for Dead: Shipwreck, Treachery, and Survival at the Edge of the World by Eric Jay Dolin (Author)
https://www.amazon.com/Left-Dead-Shipwreck-Treachery-Survival/dp/1324093080
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.
1890