Episode 217: Survival Tale
Guest: Eric Jay Dolin
Sunday, September 29, 2024
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This Week on History Happy Hour: Author Eric Jay Dolin returns for his second HHH to talk about his book Left For Dead: Shipwreck, Treachery, and Survival at the Edge of the World. 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.
Dolan discusses the surprising twists and turns throughout—involving greed, lying, bullying, a hostile takeover, stellar leadership, ingenuity, severe privation, endurance, banishment, and the great value of a dog.
Eric Jay Dolin is the bestselling author of 15 books, many on maritime history. He was on the show two years ago to talk about his book Rebels at Sea: Privateering in the American Revolution. The book before that, A Furious Sky: The Five-Hundred-Year History of America's Hurricanes, was chosen by the Washington Post as one of 50 Notable Works of Nonfiction in 2020, and by the New York Times Book Review as an "Editor's Choice." A graduate of Brown, Yale, and MIT, where he received his Ph.D. in environmental policy, Dolin lives in Marblehead, Massachusetts, with his family.