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Preview: Author Eric Jay Dolin, "Left for Dead," reports the quandary for 1812 American sealers confronting an ambitious Royal Navy officer in the end of the known world, the Falklands. More later.

The John Batchelor Show

John Batchelor

Society & Culture, Arts, News, Books

4.52.8K Ratings

🗓️ 1 June 2025

⏱️ 5 minutes

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Preview: Author Eric Jay Dolin, "Left for Dead," reports the quandary for 1812 American sealers confronting an ambitious Royal Navy officer in the end of the known world, the Falklands2848 WINDSOR. More later.

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This is John Batchelor. Later in the New Week, a conversation with Eric J. Dolan, his new book,

1:03.3

Left for Dead, Shipwreck, treachery and survival at the edge of the world. The year 1812,

1:13.9

the War of 1812 between Great Britain,

1:23.3

the empire, and the United States. But this shipwreck is in the Falklands, and it involves Australia,

1:30.2

then a penal colony, and Argentina, then very heavily influenced by the British Navy,

1:37.5

but it had its own independence, and shipwreck on the Falklands, the wind-swept Falklands.

1:46.8

Here's Eric J. Dolan, the author of Left for Dead, to describe how it is that the Falklands were not quite claimed for anyone,

1:56.1

except for the sealers. Our heroes, our sealers, go on to make their fortunes. In the Falklands seals,

2:04.8

the elephant seals, their skins are very valuable. But the Falklands itself is, as it remains here in the 21st century, a tangle of cross claims. That is correct. In the previous decades, there had

2:11.2

been French settlement, English settlement, and Spanish settlements at various times. And many

2:16.6

Westerners had seen the Falklands in earlier centuries

2:19.8

and thus creates the tangled web of who deserves ownership

2:25.4

or first discovery of the Falklands.

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