Eric Jay Dolin

Nov 6, 2024 | johnbatchelor.substack.com | Eric Jay Dolin |John Batchelor

We welcome Eric Jay Dolin, author of a new book, Left for Dead: Shipwreck, Treachery, and Survival at the Edge of the World. This book is not only about sealing—a very, very lucrative occasion around the time of the revolution in the early 19th century. It's also a story about the Falkland Islands that once were at the edge of the world, and are now in the conversation all the time between Argentina and the United Kingdom. They remain part of the British Commonwealth.

May 25, 2024 | bookreporter.com | Eric Jay Dolin

One of the central problems with what we can call existence is that it is populated with other people, who quite frequently can be extremely irritating. This is not an original insight, and I don’t expect anyone to be surprised by it. The story of how we deal with difficult and bothersome people is as old as Cain and Abel, and it isn’t going to change anytime soon.

May 18, 2024 | texarkanagazette.com | Eric Jay Dolin |Dennis Drabelle

Left for DeadShipwreck, Treachery, and Survival at the Edge of the WorldBy Eric Jay Dolin; Liveright (296 pp. $29.99)Most Americans who have heard of the Falkland Islands probably associate them with the sour little war waged there by Britain and Argentina in 1982. (The Brits won, hands down.) In his new book, "Left for Dead," historian Eric Jay Dolin chronicles an earlier brush with belligerence there, during the War of 1812.

May 17, 2024 | journalgazette.net | Eric Jay Dolin |Annie Jacobsen |Patrick K. O’Donnell |Patrick O’donnell |Rachel M. Lance

These works of military history are newly available through the Allen County Public Library. “Left for Dead: Shipwreck, Treachery, and Survival at the Edge of the World”by Eric Jay Dolin The true story of five castaways abandoned on the Falkland Islands during the War of 1812 — a tale of treachery, shipwreck, isolation and the desperate struggle for survival.

May 6, 2024 | smithsonianmag.com | Eric Jay Dolin

History | In 1813, an American sealing vessel, the “Nanina,” promised to save the crew and passengers of the “Isabella,” even though it was an enemy ship. Here’s how the British brig got stranded in the first place On the unseasonably hot Friday morning of December 4, 1812, the 193-ton brig Isabella prepared to depart from Port Jackson Harbor in the British convict colony of New South Wales, in what is now Australia. The vessel’s ultimate destination was London, via Cape Horn.