Lecture: Left for Dead: A Tale of Intrigue and Survival and the War of 1812 with Author Eric Jay Dolin

Eric Jay Dolin will be discussing his new book Left for Dead, which 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. 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, offering a unique perspective on a pivotal era in American maritime history.