This is John Bachelor. Later in the new week, a conversation with Eric J. Dolan.

His new book, Left for Dead, Shipwreck, Treachery, and Survival at the Edge of the World of the year 1812. The war of 1812 between Great Britain, the

Empire and the United States, but this shipwreck is in the Falklands and it involves Australia, then

a penal colony, and Argentina then very heavily influenced by the British Navy, but it had its own independence.

And shipwreck on the Falklands, the wind-swept Falklands. Here's Erichay Dolan, the author of Left for Dead, to describe how it is

that the Falklands were not quite claimed for anyone, except for the 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. More of this later in the week.

That is correct.

In the previous decades there had been a French settlement,

English settlement, and Spanish settlements

at various times and many Westerners had seen the Falklands in earlier centuries and thus

creates the tangled web of who deserves ownership or first discovery of the Falklands.

But right before the War of 1812,

and the years leading up to the War of 1812,

the British had already left,

and then the Spanish in 1811 left an outposts that they had there.

The men on the Ninnina didn't know much about the politics of the Falklands, but when we get into the brig coming from Australia, the Isabella, there was a little bit

more understanding about what had happened on the Falklands.