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The Wager: A tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder by David Grann
330 pages, nonfiction, $30.00 hb Members price $27.00
A true story. On January 28, 1742, a ramshackle vessel of patched-together wood and cloth washed up on the coast of Brazil. Inside were thirty men, barely alive, and they had an extraordinary tale to tell. The were survivors of His Majesty's Ship the Wager, a British vessel that had left England in 1740 on a secret mission during an imperial war with Spain. While the Wager had been chasing a Spanish treasure-filled galleon known as "the prize of the oceans", it had wrecked on a desolate island off the coast of Patagonia. The men, after being marooned for months and facing starvation, built the flimsy craft and sailed for more than a hundred days, traversing nearly three thousand miles of storm-wracked seas. They were greeted as heroes. But then….
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER o From the author of Killers of the Flower Moon, a page-turning story of shipwreck, survival, and savagery, culminating in a court martial that reveals a shocking truth. The powerful narrative reveals the deeper meaning of the events on The Wager, showing that it was not only the captain and crew who ended up on trial, but the very idea of empire.
"Riveting...Reads like a thriller, tackling a multilayered history-and imperialism-with gusto." -Time
"A tour de force of narrative nonfiction." -The Wall Street JournalThe Wager: A tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder by David Grann
330 pages, nonfiction, $30.00 hb Members price $27.00
A true story. On January 28, 1742, a ramshackle vessel of patched-together wood and cloth washed up on the coast of Brazil. Inside were thirty men, barely alive, and they had an extraordinary tale to tell. The were survivors of His Majesty's Ship the Wager, a British vessel that had left England in 1740 on a secret mission during an imperial war with Spain. While the Wager had been chasing a Spanish treasure-filled galleon known as "the prize of the oceans", it had wrecked on a desolate island off the coast of Patagonia. The men, after being marooned for months and facing starvation, built the flimsy craft and sailed for more than a hundred days, traversing nearly three thousand miles of storm-wracked seas. They were greeted as heroes. But then….
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER o From the author of Killers of the Flower Moon, a page-turning story of shipwreck, survival, and savagery, culminating in a court martial that reveals a shocking truth. The powerful narrative reveals the deeper meaning of the events on The Wager, showing that it was not only the captain and crew who ended up on trial, but the very idea of empire.
"Riveting...Reads like a thriller, tackling a multilayered history-and imperialism-with gusto." -Time