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Captain's Dinner: A Shipwreck, An Act of Cannibalism, and a Murder Trial That Changed Legal History

By Adam Cohen
Narrated by: George Newbern
Unabridged — 7 hours, 57 minutes
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By Adam Cohen
Narrated by: George Newbern
Unabridged — 7 hours, 57 minutes
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Adam Cohen takes on one of life’s defining moral questions in this riveting historical exploration about a difficult choice at sea that led to a murder trial that set a new precedent.

A Barnes & Noble Best History Book of 2025

Four men in a lifeboat. Two weeks without food. One impossible choice that would reshape the boundaries between survival and murder. “A perfect enunciation of the classic philosophical conundrum: can you sacrifice one innocent life to save many?" (Yann Martel, author of Life of Pi)

On May 19, 1884, the yacht Mignonette set sail from England on what should have been an uneventful voyage. When their vessel sank in the Atlantic, Captain Thomas Dudley a...